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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.

Bill Keller

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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Celebrity Gossip Queens Wings
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
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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Media Pioneers Thinking
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.
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Believe Principles Wikileaks
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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Internet Way
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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Matter Mean Thinking Views
I think there’s been a decline in the public’s access to what’s being done with their tax dollars, what’s being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.
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Dollars Names Thinking
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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Interesting Tools Use
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
Casual reliance on unnamed sources…corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.
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Abet Enough May
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings

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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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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