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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

Bill Keller

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
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
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
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
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
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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Believe Principles Wikileaks
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 don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
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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Country Religious Rights
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
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social

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