Posted on 06/17/2008 9:24:51 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
Marshall Field III, grandson of the founder of the department store of the same name, also challenged the AP monopoly with mixed results. He tried to launch the Chicago Sun in 1941, but struggled because AP member Chicago Tribune blocked his membership, freezing him out of the ultra low-cost news available to members. Field took his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which found the AP in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The Court in its decision quoted legendary appellate judge Learned Hand, who wrote of the dangers of AP’s monopoly: “In the production of news every step involves the conscious intervention of some news gatherer, and two accounts of the same event will never be the same. … For these reasons it is impossible to treat two news services as interchangeable, and to deprive a paper of the benefit of any service of the first rating is to deprive the reading public of means of information which it should have; it is only by cross-lights from varying directions that full illumination can be secured.”
Unfortunately, the AP’s legal defeat led to no discernible increase in competition among newspapers. Not a single, financially viable paper has been launched in the more than 60 years since the decision.
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NO!
Ditto NO!!
AP is making a huge mistake IMO just tip of the ice burg of back lash has started.
See Ya AP!
The phrase, “Unhung traitors” applies here.
Thanks for posting it.
Hell NO...
The AP is owned by The Washington Post. They bought it a few years ago.
Where did you get that? The AP is a non-profit consortium of newspapers, of which the WaPo is one.
I think you're thinking of UPI, which was bought in 2000 by News World, parent company of the Washington Times.
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