How much does the political cycle, the decline in Bush’s popularity, affect Fox News’ ratings?

Probably not as much as people think. There is a core political audience, and maybe they’re a little burned out right now. But what tends to really drive the ratings of these things are sort of non-political stories, human-interest stories, whether it’s Katrina or Natalee Holloway in Aruba.

How do you feel about the weak start of MyNetworkTV? I see it pretty straightforwardly. We’re in the game.

We’ve gotten these shows up. We’ve got an audience, probably a smaller audience than we’d like right now but not necessarily a smaller audience than we would’ve expected. If the concept is appealing and we do a good job on these shows, we have a base to grow from.

And if we don’t do a good job, we’ll stagnate here, and we’ll have a problem. What are your thoughts about DirecTV right now? It was such a big priority for you all for a lot of years, and now you’re talking about selling it to Liberty Media’s John Malone.

I certainly don’t want to talk about any potential transactions or deals. But ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.