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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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
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 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
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
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
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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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Competition Giving Ideas
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
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
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
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
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
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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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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