Rupert Murdoch

The CNN international is a different service - it is even more leftist and anti-American than CNN is. That's their business, that's fine, but it can't be getting any revenue. There is no cable network that I know of anywhere in the world other than in America that pays them for their products.

People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things.

A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone.

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.

Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.

I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one.

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.

The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.

People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.

What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.

Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.

The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.'

My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.