TV, Social Media & the Civil War

Imagining the impact of television & social media back in 1820, when Congress passed the Missouri Compromise.  The reaction of an ante-bellum Fox News handled debate on the Compromise of 1850.  Or the response of a mid-18th century MSNBC to the Fugitive Slave Act.  How might a mid-1800s CNN profiled Dred Scott & SCOTUS Chief Justice Roger B. Taney?  How long would Uncle Tom's Cabin graced the NY Times best-seller list and what would readers' comments shared on an 1850s' version of Amazon?