The blackened hulk of the T. E. L. Morro Castle was hardly cold last week before newsphoto agencies leaped headlong into the advertising pages of Editor & Publisher to tell the trade how they trounced their competitors in the race for pictures of this latest marine catastrophe. All the boasting was done by Acme Newspictures and International News Photos at the expense of their common enemy, the Associated Press.
Fundamentally the warfare between Associated Press, Hearst's International News, and Scripps-Howard's Acme should be three-cornered. But last spring AP drove the other two into a...
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