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The Los Angeles Free Press, also called "The Freep", is often cited as the first, and certainly was the largest, of the underground newspapers of the 1960s. It was founded in 1964 by Art Kunkin, who served as its publisher until 1971, and continuing on as its Editor in Chief each week through June 1973. Several others then took on those roles until March 1978. Periodically, he resumed them all and then 'reincarnated' the LA Free Press as a bi-weekly print publication in 2005. Two years later his partner in that endeavor, its current Publisher, Steven M. Finger, became its sole owner and Editor in Chief.The Freep lives on with a constant online presence both on the internet and on Facebook with separate sites for politics and music, as well as 'pop-ups' of print editions (its most recent surprise distributed at nearly 100 locations within LA - as well as in New York, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta) (en) Le Los Angeles Free Press, parfois surnommé le Freep' comme contraction de « Free Press », est un journal alternatif américain paru entre 1964 et 1978, et réédité depuis 2005. Le journal est symbolique de l'apparition, durant les années 1960 et 1970 aux États-Unis, d'une nouvelle presse alternative et indépendante portée par les valeurs montantes du mouvement hippie et du courant politique américain émergent connu sous le nom de New Left. Le journal, a vu passer dans ses colonnes l'écrivain Harlan Ellison et la poétesse qui ont fait partie des premiers critiques réguliers du journal, et Charles Bukowski y a publié à partir de 1969 une chronique hebdomadaire intitulée « Notes of a Dirty Old Man », il publiera entre autres The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers de Gilbert Shelton, Robert Crumb, ou les caricatures de Ron Cobb. Le journal publie à l'époque de nombreux articles sur les évènements politiques présent dans les années 1960 et 1970, dont la guerre du Viêt Nam durant laquelle le tirage du journal monte à 100 000 exemplaires, ou le procès des « Chicago Seven » en 1969. (fr) |
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The Los Angeles Free Press, also called "The Freep", is often cited as the first, and certainly was the largest, of the underground newspapers of the 1960s. It was founded in 1964 by Art Kunkin, who served as its publisher until 1971, and continuing on as its Editor in Chief each week through June 1973. Several others then took on those roles until March 1978. Periodically, he resumed them all and then 'reincarnated' the LA Free Press as a bi-weekly print publication in 2005. Two years later his partner in that endeavor, its current Publisher, Steven M. Finger, became its sole owner and Editor in Chief.The Freep lives on with a constant online presence both on the internet and on Facebook with separate sites for politics and music, as well as 'pop-ups' of print editions (its most recent su (en) Le Los Angeles Free Press, parfois surnommé le Freep' comme contraction de « Free Press », est un journal alternatif américain paru entre 1964 et 1978, et réédité depuis 2005. Le journal est symbolique de l'apparition, durant les années 1960 et 1970 aux États-Unis, d'une nouvelle presse alternative et indépendante portée par les valeurs montantes du mouvement hippie et du courant politique américain émergent connu sous le nom de New Left. (fr) |
