Robert G. Picard famous quotes

The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.
-- Robert G. Picard

#Past #Choices #Challenges

What most news people don't comprehend is that most of the public are not heavy information seekers - unlike journalists and the smaller portion of the population that is socially, politically and economically active.
-- Robert G. Picard

#People #Population #News

Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.
-- Robert G. Picard

#Media #Foundation #Cost

Charging for news online won't work if what is provided is the same as is available elsewhere.
-- Robert G. Picard

#News #Online #Charging

It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.
-- Robert G. Picard

#Agency #News #Stories

Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts.
-- Robert G. Picard

#Two #Online #Expecting

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.
-- Robert G. Picard

#Mistake #Rejects #Has Beens

I believe that online paid content hasn't worked for general circulation newspapers because consumers weren't ready for it, because the implementation did not deliver enough value, because content was typically the same as in the print version, and because much of the material was being syndicted by the papers to other publishers or was not protected with DRM technologies to exclude use by others.
-- Robert G. Picard

#Believe #Technology #Drm

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here

It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.

The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.

The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.

You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.