We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ...the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.

Climate change and energy use are global problems - News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.

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

I think the important thing is that there be plenty of newspapers, with plenty of different people controlling them, so that there are a variety of viewpoints, so there is a choice for the public. This is the freedom of the press that is needed.

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

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.

Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.