I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.
Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.
I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.
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.'
At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies.
Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.
In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.
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.
From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.
The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.
Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.
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?
The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.