The Underground Press Syndicate Is A Self-Indulgent Bore & Rigged-Up Bullshit Fraud
Whereas:
     Time
     Newsweek
     Saturday Eve Post
     Life
     Playboy
ALL the old bald-headed journals of NOTHINGNESS
have buildt-up the UPS as formally representing the people(s) of the New Culture
this is the same old American Flag con routine
there are thirty-odd papers in the Syndicate
                       few have ever been seen
much less    read     by the very people
        who they are supposed to be "representing"
NONE
of these papers actually reflect the problems
          of those involved in the day-to-day hassels
of living in those cities   from which these papers
              are published
they are all operating out of an ABSTRACT policy
     NOT
from any concrete NEED    which the position    taken
     by it's readership     has imposed upon them
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The Newspapers Of The Underground Exist
In An Invisible Fatherland
Aloft In A Heaven Of International Popularity & Longhair Prosperity
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    While I was Music Editor at the East Village Other (EVO) I was asked to write a piece on Bob Dylan. I handed in the piece along with photographs. After several weeks the work did not appear.

I asked the editors when it would appear. "Why should we tell you when it will be published or even if we intend to publish it at all" Finally it appeared:
whole sections had been reworded   the entire piece had been shortened by one third the original length & had been set upon the page as to look like an advertisement for Columbia Records.      It was signed with my name.
The L.A. Free Press is laid out in such a way, that the written copy is squeezed inbetween the advertisement space. NO WRITER ON THE "FREE" PRESS HAS SEEN HIS ARTICLE PRINTED EXACTLY AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN.
         This is what Editors of the UPS call: 
"Editorial Prerogative"
Newspapers are Mind-Death....    Newspapers are Old Forms in papery disguises....
BROTHERS:
Foresake the theives that drive past you when you need a ride!!!!
No Newspaper calling itself "Underground" is worth 35¢
The information printed herein costs you nothing & very well may help you
                          Be Your Own Manager....
                You Are Your Own Alternative....
You Are San Francisco & San Francisco
          Is A Free City....
You Are A Free City!!!!
.Jackbatty.