Glenn Greenwald Quotes

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

People can say: Okay, it's not the old-fashioned traditional journalism that took place in the 'Houston Chronicle' in 1975 - it's different. But that's also why newspapers are having a hard time staying relevant, you know?

If journalism is the first draft of history, then the Internet simply has provided a new means for delivering that draft far and wide very quickly.

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

People make up rumors and put them on the Internet.

While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.

Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to information, otherwise known as editing, and often the Internet seems valuable for exactly the opposite reason: You can get your news without a filter.

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

Search engines take misinformation and put it into our echo chamber. Trying to counter it is the functional equivalent of having your hair full of honey and bees and your trying to whack the bees with your hands.

We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.

YouTubers are not taken as seriously as the written press, which is strange.

One of my roles, and one of the things I'm good at, is breaking news.

You can't believe everything you hear on the Internet.

Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.

One of the main functions of politicians - and journalists - is to simplify the world for us.

I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.

There's not much you can do about the bias of the media other than try to counteract it by putting the truth out best you can, and the Internet has been a great weapon for holding the media accountable.

It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.

I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend.

It's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

It has been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss. I would add that sometimes a rolling stone also gathers no verifiable facts or even the tiniest morsels of journalistic integrity.