Radical, unique, offensive, personalized journalism has exploded with the Internet. As movements go, the godfather of Internet journalism was the underground press movement of the 1960s and one of its best examples was The East Village Other or EVO as it was commonly known. This article will outline the movement that was the underground press and The East Village Other's role in that movement. As you will see, The East Village Other was one of the most influential newspapers of its generation.

The underground press in the 1960s was a movement of alternatives; one in which the people involved opposed establishment values in the name of love and morality in the hope of changing society for the better.

If you were in the underground press movement, the above certainly sounded nice. It was their own definition, after all. The establishment certainly didn't see it that way. The establishment - much of the news media, local, state, and federal authorities, along with most culturally conservative, traditional people, saw the underground press, at its best, as immoral and obscene, and at its worst, as Marxists bent on destroying the fabric of the United States and overthrowing its government.

Located in the East Village, Lower East Side, Manhattan, in New York City, The East Village Other or EVO (its popular acronym) was the second underground newspaper to come out in the United States in the 1960s after the Los Angeles Free Press. However, EVO was perhaps the most influential. It pioneered the use of several visual techniques, including collages and underground comix. It founded the Underground Press Syndicate, an organization that create a voice for, named, and gave legitimacy to, the "underground" press. EVO was against the draft, the war in Vietnam, censorship, hated President Lyndon Johnson, supported free love, and encouraged the use of marijuana and LSD.