I Think The Important Thing Is That

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.

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.

My Father Left Me With A Clear Sense That The Media Was Something Different.

So Long As I Can Stay Mentally Alert - Inquiring, Curious - I Want To Keep Going. I Love My Wife And My Children, But I Don't Want To Sit Around At Home With Them. We Go On Safaris And Things Like That. I Can Do That For A Couple Of Weeks A Year. I'm Just Not Ready To Stop, To Die.

For Better Or For Worse, Our Company (the News Corporation Ltd.) Is A Reflection Of My Thinking, My Character, My Values.