Francis Foster

So they pull back and they think about the problem.

And this is where we see the beginning of a century of changes that give us the kind of news that make us entirely unhappy today.

So first they begin with awards.

Let's reward people, not just financially, because what the financial rewards are always going to line up with what the readers want.

We need to be able to reward people for things that we want.

So they invent the Pulitzer Prize.

They invent journalism schools.

These are the correct people to be journalists.

By the way, at this period of time, yes, there are some college people who write for newspapers from the beginning.

But most of these are blue-collar observers of real life, right?

So they've been sailors and printers and warehouse guys.

So they're not...

as susceptible to ideology, and they're very immersed in the real world.

So wait, you want to do what?

You want to open up asylums and let those people live on our streets?

That doesn't sound like a good idea.

What are you thinking?

What could go wrong?

Those kind of people are not congenial for the progressive cause in 1906.

So in 1908, they formed the first journalism school in the United States, which is in Missouri.