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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.

Bill Keller

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
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
Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Ends Mean Movement
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
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
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
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
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
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
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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Feelings Internet Want
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
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
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social

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