Jimmy Wales Quotes

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.

We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

Part of the mystique of blogs is their protean quality: They work both sides of the divide between politics and media, further blurring the already fuzzy distinctions between reporter, pundit, political operative, activist, and citizen.

After 'Land,' I wanted to do something about emerging media and citizen journalism, so I got this idea for 'Diary of the Dead.'

We need to boycott the mainstream media, and we need to go online, and we need to find credible news sources.

As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.

America is strong because its journalism is strong. That's how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses. And that is where we come in.

I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.

I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.