The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.

The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.

The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind.

We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.

I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.