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American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.

It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.

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.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.