Jeff Jarvis Quotes (11 Quotes)

I think the best of it is that journalism knows it has not done its best. That is new.

The audience isn't an idiot. The audience can figure out that the mayor didn't have an actual count. They reported what officials said, with no basis in fact to question that in any way. Are they not supposed to report it.

Our goal is to create a platform to organize the world's news using the best of technology, community and editors.

gossip stopped being mere gossip and became an industry.

Now that the actual number appears to be lower, that doesn't make this any less of a tragedy or any less of a horrendous failing of our government. Now it's a tragic revision. So it's not as bad as we thought, so it's OK Of course it's not.

I want students to explore the relationship of the media with the public.

The business strategy is if we can get a critical mass of very local content and a local audience, then we can target ads better than we ever could down to a town level.

Any time any medium attempts to find humor in darkness, it can sometimes clank one off the rim. Not every Onion story is a gem, ... And I've been offended by plenty of stories ripped from the headlines by Dick Wolf or Commander in Chief. Do we dismiss print Do we downgrade all TV Or do we blame the writers who missed the mark

This is really the first time since William Randolph Hearst that a young journalist can think like an entrepreneur.

What made the voice of the people somehow less important than the paid professional journalist

The Internet, as a decentralized communications network, can be more resilient than traditional media when natural disasters occur. Owning broadcast towers and printing presses were useless, ... The Web proved to be a better media in a case like this.