Thomas Nasst

The thing about boss tweed's ring was that thanks to journalism it was vastly skewed. This was mainly do to journalist Thomas Nasst. Nasst was known for his political cartoons on Tweed's ring. He and the New York Times, were the main reasons for the "corrupt politician" reputation given to Tweed and his constituents. The reason one might think that Tweed's crouped persona might be skewed in a negative light, is because of his actual actions. If you were to go and look up what Tweed and his constituents were really using their corruption of power for you'd see that even though they were using some of it for there own personal gain, but at the same time they were mainly trying to help the immigrants that settled in NYC. In particular the immigrants that were trying to further their own businesses.

Below are some images. One of Nast himself and two of his drawings depicting some Tweed and his constituency's escapades.

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Boss Tweed Ring

Hi I'm Chris. this my blog on the Boss Tweed Ring from 1869 and how the field of journalism shaped its out come. But first a quick tutorial of the Boss Tweed Ring. It all started in 1869 with William M. Tweed, as commissioner of public works, leading a ring that controlled the government in NYC. He and his associates robbed the taxpayers of many millions of dollars. An author of the time named Albert Bigelow Paine, had this to say about their scam; "their methods were curiously simple and primitive...". the main idea of the scam was to take control the ruling party of the state,  which at the time the Democratic Party, and then use that power to buy large amounts businesses. thus giving Tweed and his constituents even more power over the city.