The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
BILL KELLERI do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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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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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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I don’t have dating tips.
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I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
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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 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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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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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 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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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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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