Red Ink, White Lies: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles Newspapers 1920-1962 - Softcover

Wagner, Rob Leicester

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0944933807 ISBN 13: 9780944933800

Publisher: Dragonflyer Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Los Angeles at the end of World War I was poised to become a major metropolitan center as hundreds of thousands of residents from the East and Midwest flocked to the city they eagerly wanted to call home. To serve the growing appetite for news, particularly scandal among the Hollywood set, were six daily newspapers. These newspapers provided a colorful portrait of a city in its awkward adolescence. They rose to power with their own distinct voice. Behind their mastheads reporters and editors strived to build their own agenda, whether to give a voice to the voiceless or to banish minorities from within the city's borders. It's a bold raucous story told by the newspapermen and women who experienced it first-hand, covering the breaking news, scandals, and tragedies of the City of Angeles.

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Review

... an unparalleled grasp of its history, yet sweetened by anecdotal memoirs heart-tugging to those of us who lived it. -- Paul Weeks, former Los Angeles Times reporter

A fascinating history of LA's most colorful days and the newspapers a lot of us loved working for. -- Jack Jones, member of the 1965 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team for the Los Angeles Times

Wagner masterfully takes us through the growing pains of LA's newspapers throughout most of the 20th century... -- Today's Librarian, August 2000

Edition details

• Publisher: Dragonflyer Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0944933807
• ISBN 13: 9780944933800
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 357