Lincoln was a tyrant and a dictator with regard to the media, shutting down over 300 opposition newspapers in the North during the War to Prevent Southern Independence and imprisoning their editors and owners without due process. No other president has ever come close to being as big an enemy of freedom of the press.
-Thomas DiLorenzo
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/07/thomas-dilorenzo/presidents-war-media/