David Frum Quotes

You realize that if you're in the media business, technology is fundamentally what's driving the change in that business.

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

I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow's technological world.

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture.

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines.

The media's about to become a lot more effective.

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

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

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

I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we'd seen how the audio industry got disrupted, so it just seemed like a natural progression that video was next. We thought we were late to the game in 2003.

I want to get in on how the media business is changing, how people are telling stories in new ways.

When television came out, there was concern it would kill radio.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

Digitisation will rather consolidate the broadcasting industry in India because once the cable is digitized, then naturally all the programmers can showcase their programming.

Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's put big companies into completely reinventing their strategies.

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.

You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media we so mocked.

Just like the VCR opened the film and TV industries to unimaginable new revenue streams, search, RSS and the Internet will do the same for marketers and media companies.