Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
BILL KELLEREvery technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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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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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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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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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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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I don’t have dating tips.
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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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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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It’s a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they’re a spent force.
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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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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