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Ithaca JournalFounded in 1815 as Seneca Republican, the Ithaca, New York newspaper was renamed the Ithaca Journal in 1823. According to the its website (see links below), the first daily edition of paper was published in 1870 and its offices are housed in the same building it has occupied since 1905. The Journal was purchased by Frank E. Gannett in 1912, thereby becoming the second local newspaper of what would later become the media conglomerate Gannett Co, Inc. In May 1996, the Journal switched to a morning printing and distribution schedule after many years as an afternoon daily. Until that point, the newspaper run by Cornell University students, the Cornell Daily Sun had been the only morning daily paper in the city. The Journal continues to be locally edited and printed in downtown Ithaca as a broadsheet daily newspaper. Criticized by the Left As befits a city with Ithaca's liberal political climate, the Journal has been frequently criticized throughout its history as pro-war and pro-corporate. Critics have pointed out that the newspaper strongly supported the Vietnam War, headlining an editorial in 1967 "U.S. Troops Must Stay in Vietnam," and condemed protests of the first Persian Gulf War as "unrealistic" in 1991. Prior to World War II, the Journal, as with many American newspapers of the era, praised Europe's dictators. "No objective critic can fail to see that, viewed by the practical standard, Fascism has been, on the whole, a success," pronounced a misguided 1932 editorial. External Links * The Cornell Daily Sun
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