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You know how trends go with television. Next year, the networks might not be open to taking risks.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

CNN will always be the channel people turn on when wars and horrible disasters happen. The 'trick' is getting people to also want to watch it when there aren't hundreds or thousands of people somewhere in the world currently in mortal peril.

The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.

And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.

I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show.

From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.

If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.