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 KELLERJulian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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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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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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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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Whether 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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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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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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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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