Jimmy Wales
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I mean, we're really old fashioned, like what we look for are reliable sources.
So we want, you know, sort of academic research or quality newspapers, quality magazines, quality books, really old fashioned.
And, you know,
The idea that we should treat the New England Journal of Medicine as the same as Social Media Influencer Online is obviously just wrong.
You really want facts.
And that's what people want from Wikipedia.
They don't want... Sources matter.
Sources really matter.
Having a good quality source is what it's all about.
I think, and I think that's a huge problem.
I mean, I do think, you know, it's really important.
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.
And so, you know, sometimes you read something and you're like,
Yeah, that was interesting, that was good, but I'm not sure I got both sides of the story there.
I live in the UK and we have a, just an example, two quality newspapers, The Guardian and The Telegraph, left-leaning, right-leaning.
They're both great newspapers, but I often
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
to like the moon is made of rocks or is it cheese?