CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.