Bill Kristol Quotes

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.

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

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distribution that there used to be.

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.

Everybody is talking about cord cutting. It's not about the cord. It's the content.

Suddenly, everyone woke up, and everything was moving online. We've got Netflix making original series, CBS placing their network online, and suddenly, everyone's announcing some kind of digital network for serving their content online.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.

In the old days you could do re-runs, and people would have to watch that because there's nothing else. But with Netflix and Amazon, Hulu, Xbox, as well as premium and regular cable, it's very hard to do that.

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can't imagine we will change that process.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

Initially, the television was seen as the devil incarnate by people that worked in the content industry. Now over time it turned out that that was one of the best things that ever could have happened to a content creator. I think the Internet is no different.

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.