Daily Planet (Philadelphia newspaper)

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The Daily Planet was a weekly underground newspaper that was distributed for free on college campuses in the greater Philadelphia area in the 1970s. [1] It was an early example of an advertiser-funded weekly local entertainment guide.

The Daily Planet was primarily an arts and entertainment tabloid. providing weekly updates on the counterculture and music scene in the Philadelphia. area. Among its writing staff were film critic Lewis Beale (who went on cover movies in Los Angeles), Steve Apple (later a publicist for Philadelphia's Electric Factory Concerts), Alan Newman (who was a record company promoter and concert producer) and Keith Mason (a jazz DJ, theatrical producer and nonprofit writer).

The Daily Planet also contained political coverage on topics such the opposition to the Vietnam war and police brutality.

Journalist Bob Ingram says this of the Daily Planet: [2]

"Campus freebie- These days, every time I look at a daily newspaper’s weekend entertainment, I think of The Daily Planet, which was The Drummer’s entertainment section with a different cover, distributed free to the Greater Philadelphia colleges to grab all that youth market advertising."

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References

  1. "Philadelphia Daily Planet 8/71 The Band Leon Russell". eBay . Retrieved July 9, 2014.
  2. Ingram, Bob (February 6, 2011). "Those '70s underground papers: Does this story sound familiar?". Broad Street Review. Retrieved July 9, 2014.

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