Jeremy Rifkin Quotes

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

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

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.

You can never trust what you read.

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.

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

Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

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.

Even if we live in a post-truth culture, […] we do not live in a fact-free zone.

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.

When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like 'Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out.

All of us technology companies need to create some tools that help diminish the volume of fake news. We must try to squeeze this without stepping on freedom of speech and of the press, but we must also help the reader.

So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and frequently it wasn't.