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Jimmy Wales

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Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

Yeah.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

I mean, we're really old fashioned, like what we look for are reliable sources.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

So we want, you know, sort of academic research or quality newspapers, quality magazines, quality books, really old fashioned.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

And, you know,

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

The idea that we should treat the New England Journal of Medicine as the same as Social Media Influencer Online is obviously just wrong.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

You really want facts.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

And that's what people want from Wikipedia.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

They don't want... Sources matter.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

Sources really matter.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

Having a good quality source is what it's all about.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

Mm-hmm.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

I think, and I think that's a huge problem.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

I mean, I do think, you know, it's really important.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

I mean, one of the problems that we've seen is that a lot of the media in response to the changing and very difficult financial model for journalism, they've chased after really partisan audiences.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

And so, you know, sometimes you read something and you're like,

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

Yeah, that was interesting, that was good, but I'm not sure I got both sides of the story there.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

I live in the UK and we have a, just an example, two quality newspapers, The Guardian and The Telegraph, left-leaning, right-leaning.

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

They're both great newspapers, but I often

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

read one and I'm like oh but and then I go read the other and I'm like yeah you probably should have been somewhere in the middle both of you and it would have been I think a better story had you said well you know we got one side of the story but we actually had to go out and find somebody to tell us a little bit about the other side you know you can't be

Bloomberg Talks
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks New Book

to like the moon is made of rocks or is it cheese?