We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .
Conrad BlackThere is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.
Conrad BlackAlthough his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.
Conrad BlackI always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.
Conrad BlackWe must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.
Conrad Black