I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
BILL KELLERI may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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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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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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One of the reasons that I’m a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I’m delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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Liberation 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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