I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

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.

I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.

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

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.