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I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.

Bill Keller

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
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 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
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
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
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
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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 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 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
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil

I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.

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