The Salem Standard was a Pre-War Newspaper founded as far back as 1920, and was dated as one of the oldest and longest running newspapers in the United States of America, becoming quite the reputed provider of factual information in the public eye, though this reputation would later come in to disrepute following articles that seemed to backtrack on previously scathing criticism of the United States policies towards both foreign and domestic issues. Remnants of the paper can be found across the city of Salem, and in some parts of the Northwest Commonwealth thanks in part to its influence and popularity, before being destroyed in the Great War.