New technologies have always ended up giving content more advantages than disadvantages. I think they will again this time, but it's not clear to the market yet. |
Our agreement to work together on digital media initiatives marks an important step forward in better serving consumers and protecting the interests of all content businesses, ... We look forward to others in the media and entertainment industries joining together with us to help to advance the digital distribution of content to consumers while maintaining copyright protection. |
Our big growth value opportunity is in AOL, ... That's the No. 1 focus for us right now. |
Overall, I'm pleased with the results from most of our businesses, |
sort of hit the pause button on that. |
Ted is my man. I love Ted, ... He knows more, particularly about the television space, which is at least a good third of this company. Ted and I have always had a wonderful relationship, and I am going to be reaching out to him, too. |
Ted's leadership role in the formation of global media in general and AOL Time Warner in particular is uniquely significant, ... His values of journalistic independence and public service are a permanent part of who we are and what we do. |
The big growth opportunity - big value accretion opportunity for us - is in AOL, ... We need to accelerate a path that we have been on. |
The board is comfortable with the leadership of the company, |
The bottom line is we think we have a lot of ways to get home, ... We'll explore and exploit the ones that stand out to be the most beneficial to the company. |
The Chinese are doing everything they can to manage the message. They are opening up in their own time and at their own speed. |
The real driver of enhanced valuation is going to be AOL in the near term and the long term, |
The road back may not be as short as we wish, ... But there are solid reasons to feel confident about the future. |
There may be, but we're not there right now, ... We're not heading in that direction. We believe in AOL, we believe in its fit with our other assets, and we're trying to make it work as we laid out for investors a week ago. |
This is a very exciting time for our company and the year is off to a great start, |