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no present likelihood that any other
comparable to any of
the said three existing news agen-
cies will undertake to serve Ameri-
can newspapers with news gathered
on comprehensive basis.
4s. The business Of news agencies
In collecting news and distributing
the same to newspapers Is affected
with national public interest. This
Is true for the reasons hereinbefore
alleged with respect to the public
of newspapers and for
the additional reason that the serv-
ice rendered by news agencies is in
to the success of any in
dividual newspaper. Furthermore
the national Importance of the
product of the Associated Press in
particular; its purpose to continue
a business which has been recog-
nized as affected with public inter
est; the number and character of
the newspapers which it expressly
holds itself out to serve; the re-
quirement of large size and finan-
cial resources for its effective opera
ton; its dominant bargaining posi-
ton in comparison to any individual
newspaper in need of it's service
the extent of its coverage; the COL
lectiye power of the group of news
papers which compose it; It's ten
dency and growth toward achieving
monopolostic power, enhanced by It's
exclusive contracts with its mem
bers and by the fact that others, in
order to render the same service.
would have to engage in wasteful
duplication of its facilities; and its
freedom from rivalry with many
competitors, as hereinafter set forth,
are factors which justify the re-
quirement that the Associated Press
serve newspapers needing or desiring
Its service without undue discrim-
ination, and free from restraints i'm
posed by it as hereinafter charged in
the interests of its individual mem
bers. These factors, among others,
render the particular restraints of
trade and other activities charged
herein undue and unreasonable.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
~. Defendant the Associated Press
has at present approximately 1874
members, being individuals, cor
porations, partnerships, limited Ii
ability corporations, joint stock and
other associations, owning newspa-
pers published throughout the vari-
GUS States and dependencies of the
United States and in certain other
parts OF the world. These members
have combined in and with the AS
ISOLATED Press for the cooperative
collection, interchange and distribu-
ton OF news, information and INTEL
ligence for publication in newspa-
pers.
The members publishing news
papers in the United States are sew
orally engaged in the commercial
business of collecting and distribut-
ing, in interstate commerce, news
information and intelligence fol-
profit. The Associated Press acts as
an instrumentality for the constant
exchange between it's said members
in the channels of interstate ano
foreign communication, of news, in
formation and intelligence supplied
to it by its respective members, anc
it also acts as a supplier to its mem.
bers Of news, information and in.
telligence gathered by its own activi-
ties.
so. The original certificate of In
corporation of the Associated Press
filed May %, 1900; a statement OF
the subsequent amendments to the
certificate of incorporation; the
original bylaws of the Associated
Press adopted September 10, 1900; a
statement of all significant changes
made in the bylaws between Sep
tember 10, 1900, and April 20, 1912,
and the bylaws now in effect, as
last amended April 20. 1912, are at
tached hereto and made part here
Of, marked Exhibits A, B, G, D anc
E, respectively.
81. In addition to its principal
place of business located in the
Associated Press Building, No. sc
Rockefeller Plaza, New York City
which 1t claims to be known popu-
lerly as The News Center of The
World" the Associated Press main
tains Offices In more than $50 cities
of the world and "a news bureaus
in the United States alone, usually
one in each State and two or more
In some, OF these bureaus in the
United States. seven have staffs OF
so or more full-time employees; five
have stats of 80 to 40; 26 have stats
from 10 to 20, and 56 have staffs Of
nine or under.
A total of approximately 100000
persons contribute, directly or in
directly, to the carrying on of its
business. It's own staff of 1900 en-
ployes Q940 being full-time), in
cluding $500 correspondents located
In foreign countries, is augmented