The Great Speckled Bird (newspaper)
- The Great Speckled Bird (newspaper)
"The Great Speckled Bird" was a counterculture underground newspaper based in Atlanta, Georgia from 1968 to 1976. The paper subscribed to Liberation News Service, a leftist news collective. The office of "The Great Speckled Bird" at the north end of Piedmont Park (240 Westminster Dr.) was firebombed and destroyed after the paper published an exposé of the mayor of Atlanta.
A quote from "The Bird": "These are our opinions and we are entitled to them, they are not written anywhere else. So, don't expect us to tell both sides of the story. The big newspapers, magazines, TV and radio do that all day long. Here you will hear our side of things."
The Bird has begun republishing online at http://bird.thinkspeak.net/
External links
* [http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/images/gsb2.jpgCover Image of "The Bird"]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10081 Liberation News Service]
* [http://www.greatspeckledbird.org/ Great Speckled Bird website]
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