When the Associated Press proposed two years ago to set up a $1,000,000 Wirephoto service for transmitting news pictures over telephone wires, AP Subscribers William Randolph Hearst and Roy Wilson Howard fought the plan as an "unjustifiable extravagance." First picture transmitted when Wirephoto got going last year was news: an airplane wreck in upper New York State. Other first-day photographs seemed to justify the Hearst-Howard complaints (TIME, Jan. 14, 1935).
Perhaps because there has been no great U. S. picture news in the past year, newsreaders in general have not shown much appreciation of...
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