Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with three or more daily editions to keep KVOS fans up to the minute on world affairs? For advertising, there was the business of Bellingham merchants who would pay for interspersed announcements. For an editor, there was L. H. Darwin, who had once published a Bellingham paper. For news, there were the columns of the Bellingham Herald and the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer, all members of the far-flung Associated Press...
...split profits from the "Newspaper of the Air." Listeners liked the newscasting, the "fighting" editorials which the radio station directed against the Bellingham Herald and other political foes. First trouble for KVOS came when the A. P. asked for an injunction to prevent the broadcasters from appropriating its news as it appeared in member papers. Financial support came, to KVOS from the National Association of Broadcasters, representatives of a notoriously timid yet greedy industry, glad to find an obscure test case which might entitle them to millions of dollars worth of free news. First Federal District Court in Washington...
Last week the A. P.'s case was tossed out of the Supreme Court, not on the ground that its news was not appropriated by the radio station, but because, in the opinion of Mr. Justice Roberts, his colleagues concurring unanimously, the A. P. failed to show more than $3,000 worth of damages, minimum amount with which a Federal Court may concern itself. Fascinated with the fact that A. P. is a non-profit-making organization, the justices decreed that the A. P. therefore could not "lose" the dues paid by its member papers if radio newscasting should...
...members "are its customers, and there would be no point in collecting profits from them in order to return the profits as dividends." The Court's action left still unsettled by the highest court in the country, how long broadcasting stations must wait before they can legitimately appropriate "news'" published by newspapers...
This was not to say that no correspondent had succeeded last week in establishing sound news pipelines into the Rothschild Castle, but it was to say that as yet 95% of stories printed about the Duke of Windsor were obvious, blatant fakes. They unmasked to some hitherto naive editors the whole Vienna school of whipped-cream journalism, and (which will prove much more expensive) they unmasked it to the world public as well. Hereafter money is going to be spent getting much nearer to the facts of life in each royal Balkan sty and snuggery...