Advances in the technology of communications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes: Fax machines enable dissidents to bypass state-controlled print media; direct-dial telephone makes it difficult for a state to control interpersonal voice communication; and satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled 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.

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

The current days of the Internet will soon be over.

Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.