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

Red Ink, White Lies: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles Newspapers 1920-1962 by Wagner, Rob Leicester. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780944933800.

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 citys borders. Its 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.