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.