I'm Considered Homophobic And Crazy About These

Advances In The Technology Of Communications Have Proved An Unambiguous Threat To Totalitarian Regimes: Fax Machines Enable Dissidents To Bypass State-controlled Print Media; Direct-dial Telephone Makes It Difficult For A State To Control Interpersonal Voice Communication; And Satellite Broadcasting Makes It Possible For Information-hungry Residents Of Many Closed Societies To Bypass State-controlled Television Channels.

To Find Something Comparable, You Have To Go Back 500 Years To The Printing Press, The Birth Of Mass Media – Which, Incidentally, Is What Really Destroyed The Old World Of Kings And Aristocracies. Technology Is Shifting Power Away From The Editors, The Publishers, The Establishment, The Media Elite. Now It’s The People Who Are Taking Control.

Somebody Talked Me Into Writing An Autobiography About Six Or Seven Years Ago. And I Said I'd Try. We Talked Into A Tape Recorder, And After A Couple Of Months, I Said, To Hell With It. I Was So Depressed. It Was Like Saying, 'this Is The End.' I Was More Interested In What The Hell Was Coming The Next Day Or The Next Week.

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.

Money Is Not The Motivating Force. It's Nice To Have Money, But I Don't Live High. What I Enjoy Is Running The Business.