Tina Brown

Well, that's absolutely right.

I mean, we mustn't forget that.

I mean, look at William Randolph Hearst.

I mean, it was kind of a monstrous kind of one-sided view of the world.

And maybe, you know, one can argue that all the plurality now gets you away from that.

I think the rich people are always going to want to buy media.

I was very amused to see now that James Murdoch is buying New York Magazine.

I mean, it's like they just can't keep away because what they realize is, and this is sort of gratifying, all of these wealthy people without media are just boring rich people.

Nobody really gives a damn about them, quite frankly.

So you can buy the tiniest thing and have more kudos in the world than some guy with a real estate fortune or a tech fortune who nobody cares about.

So media gives them a profile still, which they really want.

What is aggravating, of course, is they take over media and they don't

give it any respect that is the thing that drives me insane about the tech people is that they have no respect for the creators they have none they wish to have all the obeisance in the world you know for them and their amazing brilliant skills i personally think that writing words is ought to be as well paid as writing code and it you know it has far more life in the end than some ephemeral algorithm which you know is you know something new is reinvented every day whereas

You know, show me a sonnet by Shakespeare and, you know, all I can tell you is it's going to last longer.

Yes.

I think Murdoch has a lot to answer for.

I think that he degraded, you know, journalism over, you know, three continents for years.

Oh my God, what, five, six decades?

It's unbelievable.

Although latterly, I mean, I think that he's been a good steward of the Wall Street Journal and latterly the Sunday Times seems to be doing a lot of very, very good work.