The North American countercultural press of the 1960s drew inspiration from predecessors that had begun in the 1950s, such as the "Village Voice" and Paul Krassner's satirical paper "The Realist." Arguably, the first underground newspaper of the 1960s was the "Los Angeles Free Press", founded in 1964 and first published under that name in 1965. In mid-1966, the cooperative Underground Press Syndicate (UPS) was formed at the instigation of Walter Bowart, the publisher of another early paper, the "East Village Other". The UPS allowed member papers to freely reprint content from any of the other member papers. Also playing a major role was Liberation News Service (LNS), which was co-founded in the summer of 1967 by Ray Mungo and Marshall Bloom. and which "provided coverage of events to which most papers would have otherwise had no access."