On October 1 , 1910 , a bomb exploded at the L.A. Times building , killing 21 workers . Labor activists were blamed for the bombing , but the San Francisco '' Daily News '' , a four-penny paper started in 1903 , defended them . The '' Daily News '' joined the Scripps-Howard in 1921 . '' The People 's World '' began publishing in 1938 , the first leftist daily published in the West
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