Herb Caen Quotes

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news and its comments must reach the largest possible number of people; second, because circulation means advertising, and advertising means money, and money means independence.

You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage.

As editor-in-chief of the 'Guardian' and the 'Observer', my job is to ensure that our independent journalism continues to be enjoyed by as many readers as possible and that our print newspapers make a positive financial contribution to securing a sustainable future.

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

The infomercial business has been good to me.

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

Google has a great product. They've built a great business.

Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.

Doctors quickly learn that how much they make has little to do with how good they are. It largely depends on how they handle the business side of their practice.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.

I'm curious to see what kind of distribution it's going to get because of that.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

I am broadcaster's biggest cheerleader because I genuinely believe in it. Where else can you get 20 million people a week watching 'NCIS' or 'American Idol?' Where else can you get 120 million watching the Super Bowl?

Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.

You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.

The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.

Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here.

I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.