If MSNBC went off the air tomorrow, what difference would it make? If the 'Huffington Post' went out of business tomorrow, what difference would it make?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.
I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.
'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.
We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.
I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.
I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.