Word: ap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week evening readers were astonished to find the News and Union editions nearly identical. The front pages were exactly alike, each including many an Associated Press dispatch although the News is no AP member. The phenomenon was accounted for, but not fully explained, by the lead story in both papers...
Resolution No. 1: Let the AP maintain its picture-mat service to small papers at the same standard of efficiency as in the past, and at no greater cost than in pre-Wirephoto days. Boldly Publisher Macy pounced on a sore toe by reviewing the AP's momentous blunders on the Hauptmann verdict, the Gold Clause decision and the Weirton case "while the executives' attention was diverted to Wire-photo." His main point for the resolution: His papers were required to pay 50% more for an expedited mat-service to keep from being scooped by metropolitan dailies invading...
Resolution No, 2: Let the AP undertake no activity that does not serve the entire membership. Up spoke John D. Ewing, publisher of the Shreveport (La.) Times to complain that the Dallas News and Times-Herald "come into our field every day in the year with their damn Wirephotos-using our pictures!" Defense by President Noyes: "If we are to back to real mutuality, we go back to a pony wire service for all members, because some members can't afford anything better. ' Vote: Overwhelming...
Resolution No. 3: Let the AP be protected against any liability arising out of ) Wirephoto. Big Jack Neylan rose on his long legs, began in an easy, booming drawl...
Resolution No. 4: Let a committee of five, including at least three nonusers of Wirephoto, review the whole transaction and determine if the AP's credit and the interests of all members have been protected. Neylan: "I demand a record vote." Carl L. Estes of the Longview, Tex.) News, bitingly: ". . . I've had enough of this self-appointed, self-anointed shepherd of the little fellow. " Vote: Tabled...