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.
BILL KELLERWhether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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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 make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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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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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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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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