Walt Mossberg Quotes

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

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

If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

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

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

There are no easy answers for the balance of how you protect the core business of the books with what the digital future will look like, but that would be our job with DC Comics, to figure that out and experiment and take some risks while always protecting the core business.

No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

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.

People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.

The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to allow ourselves to be constantly blown from one trend to the next.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Just don’t bet against the Internet.

The Internet is king. Newspapers are dead or dying. Magazines are shrinking every day. Ad budgets are being cut. The bottom line is now the only line in advertising.

Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.

I think technology, on one side, you can look at it; it's disrupted a lot of industries and businesses. On the other side, it's enabled us to do things that we never thought possible in being able to engage customers.

Digital is going to have five times the impact than the information era. Just because you led the first transition as a company or country, that doesn't mean you will lead in this one.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

All TV is now digital. It's a platform ripe for innovation; we just haven't seen any beyond picture quality changes. That's a secular problem.

The introduction of new technology is always disruptive to existing markets, particularly to content/copyright owners who sell through well-established distribution channels.