627 UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPERS NEW YOUTH PRESS LAID TO VACUUM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300230008-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 20, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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numbers hundreds of publica-
tions with a disLribution in ex-
cess of three million because it
fills a vacuum left by the estab-
lishment newspapers.
It will continue as long as
publishers fail to meet the need
of today's youth, said two jour-
nalism education investigators
in a report to the CNPA News-
paper Workshop here September
11-12.
It is the creation basically of
young-people who are visually
oriented and who realize that
graphics express emotion. It per-
forms important services in some
areas. All underground papers
are not obscene, they added.
Double base
These ;papers were established
"because, of conditions in soci-
ety, as the establishment press
left a vacuum," said Robert
Glossing of California's Canada
College Journalism faculty.
Their circulation is three
times the million distribution of
the college press, said the edu-
cator whose book, The Under-
ground Press in America, is
scheduled for publication next
Spring.
Clessing, who interviewed 30
underground preroi editors nc-
cro;;s the country in