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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

Bill Keller

Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can’t pick one favorite.
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Children Chose Journalism
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
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
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
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
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
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 don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it’s also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.
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Privacy Thinking Treasure
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.
BILL KELLER

Internet Way

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