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“I’d like to see every news organization, large and small, newspaper and blog, sponsor FOIA clubs in their communities to get scores, hundreds, thousands of citizens helping to open up data.”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

“Nobody sells native advertising better than BuzzFeed, with an entire staff devoted to creating its trademark listicles and quizzes just for sponsors: “How To Rank Your Happiness By Jars Of Nutella®”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

“A few people in a basement room take the best of that service and repackage it, freeze-drying it for print. Print becomes a promotional vehicle for the brand’s online services and a supplier of cash flow to subsidize research and development. That”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

“TV news — especially local TV news — sucks. It favors heat over light. It repeats much, saying little. It goes overboard on weather, sticking rulers in the snow to show how it grows or standing in the wind to prove it blows. It adores fires — which, though terrible for those in their path, usually affect few — because TV news values video über alles. It delivers BREAKING NEWS that isn’t breaking at all but is too often long-over, repetitive, obvious, or trivial.”
― Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News