Craig Newmark Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Craig Newmark:
Milestones aren't what I think about much.
~Craig Newmark
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Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.
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A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.
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Realize that you can't make everyone happy.
~Craig Newmark
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I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.
~Craig Newmark
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Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.
~Craig Newmark
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I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.
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Do something real, and keep it simple.
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The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging.
~Craig Newmark
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Right now, the biggest shared value that I can think of is that you should treat others the way you want to be treated, and just have some good sense about what matters to you.
~Craig Newmark
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I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
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In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.
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