| Show i i The Newspaper Inquiry The House Trust Anti-Trust Committee Commit tee ig g into question of nr and wl while lr iv n 1 predict the outcome I o 0 ings it is good to toc toc c c. c he hc trend in the news news- p p field wJ which ch h. h iron een causing concern in sonic some circles for a long time TIIE TIlE TRENT TREND of course is toward chain ownership of daily newspapers And further the trend in recent years is toward one newspaper or one newspaper cr er corporation in most of the theL L larger cities Those concerned over the future future fu ture because of this trend claim that it is almost a monopoly monopoly mono mono- poly situation in many of oC the nations nation's cities cHies Those denying any my danger point out that newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers now have ha plenty plent of oC competition competition com com- petition from the new medium television tele and from radio And they also point to the fact that one can buy newspapers from other towns in any large city cHy TilE THE CO COMMITTEE looking ir it irto irto to tJ this s question has been tol tot that there are arc fewer daily dailie today than Ulan there were fUt fill years cars ago in spite of oC a hur hup population increase in that lim Urn limIn limIn In the last decade as the lit fanning am ng town and suffered economically about f weeklies have ha folded So the newspaper industry i inot inot inot not booming by any means A Athe Athe Athe A A- the major threat at the Uie for or big bib dailies is the lack of or restriction rr re on labor Trade union in the industry for or example arc exempt from the trust anti laws Perhaps both chain ownership and union power will have to be limited in the thc interest of oC the public Free independent community com com- community newspapers capable of expressing the views of people in their community ed b by unrestrained unions are arem in m the public interest |
