Francis Foster

Dissent is not good for being in charge of a cartel.

Toxic, in fact.

And this starts to drive out of journalism.

the people who, the oddballs, both the innovators, the strange people, the people who will camp out and go after a story when everyone else thinks there's no story there, the creative, and the self-destructive, which often can be the same person.

And left in its place is a lot of middle-class people looking for a safe, predictable job.

This changes what kind of journalism is produced.

I'm not saying that Greek journalism wasn't produced in this period, 30s to the 60s, and even after the 60s, because that would be absolutely false.

There are some of the most amazing reporting, writing investigations were in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

So I'm not casting aspersions.

I'm just saying the kind of person who went into news

But the progressives, even after all of this, they've created journalism schools.

They've set up professional associations like the Society of Professional Journalists to issue ethics rules.

They have awards.

They have unions.

They still don't feel like they have control over this crazy beast that is the media.

So they start to push for public ownership.

In the late 1940s, we get publicly owned stations, radio stations, in San Francisco, New York, LA, and a few other places.

Ultimately, in the 60s, we see the emergence of national public radio and public broadcasting, which is the television arm.

And it's like, let me show you guys how it should be done, is basically the approach of public media, to try to condition the private market from...

being too, going off, leaving the catechism, right?