Donald E. Graham Quotes

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

Many people think that the print press is dying in America. Well I do not agree. And neither does my blacksmith.

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.

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a newspaper for real-time news. That's the equivalent of the steam age.

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

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

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.

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

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

I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It's a strange disconnect.

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism.

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

Print is not dead.

There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.

I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.

When you look at the whole explosion of the Internet, the decline of print journalism, there are all of these plus-or-minus ramifications, and you have to work it out. The great thing about books is that you have a tactile thing that's there. You can download this or download that, but how long do you want to be staring at a screen for the rest of your life? You've got to have some kind of proper interface for people that's not about the screen.

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.