Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
BILL KELLERLiberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your website and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.
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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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Twitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.
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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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I don’t think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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