News Access Quotes

The interesting thing is when you look at what people want to do on their phone, it's mail, weather, check stock quotes and news. That's Yahoo's business. This is a huge opportunity for us because we have the content and all the information people want on their phones.

I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

Young people read their news online; they expect to get their news for free.

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

You want to live in a world where people have access to the news–in other words, documentary evidence of what is really happening. And an ISIS video of hostages being beheaded is both an act of propaganda and is itself a fact.... If you're a platform, you don't want to suppress the facts. On the other hand, you don't want to participate in advancing propaganda. And there is the conundrum.

I don't actually go to newsstands anymore.

Everything has gotten less expensive. Digitization has made content, whether it's print or music, less costly. Today, anyone can read the news for free 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.

While on the space station, I kept up with news a couple of ways - Mission Control sent daily summaries, and I would scan headlines on Google News when we had an Internet connection, which was about half the time.

It's really cool having the news in your pocket.

Back when I went to Louisiana State University a million years ago, we got the Baton Rouge paper. But if you wanted to read 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal,' you had to go to the reading room of the student union, and you got the edition several days after it had been published, and you had to read it on a wooden stick.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

Now your kids can't escape. Thirteen-year-olds back then, if they didn't watch the evening news, they didn't see news. If they didn't watch the 6:30 or seven p.m. news, they didn't see news. Today younger people have much more access to that kind of hard news than you did when you were 13 back then.

Anyone who faults Romney or Obama or any public figure for demanding quote approval is missing the point. The journalists were no abused weaklings here. They made a bargain for access to these newsworthy figures that they thought was in their favor - they're only complaining because they got caught.

In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.

What good is freedom of the press if people can't read a newpaper?

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.