My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.