Abstract

The Truth About the A. P. I. Growth of a News Trust

The article discusses public press in America. News is the oxygen of democratic society, and the American form of government cannot long endure if the supply is impeded or allowed to suffer contamination. The concentration of control over the news has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. The main instrument of that concentration is the Associated Press, the news agency with tentacles reaching around the world which for some fifty years has operated to restrict the flow of new blood into the news-paper business. Now this organization has been charged, in a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, with "combination and conspiracy in restraint of trade and commerce in news, information, and intelligence among the several states."