Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.
I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.
People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things.
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?
Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.
I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.
Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.
