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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.

Bill Keller

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

Answers Curse Journalist
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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Feelings Internet Want
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
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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Abet Enough May
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
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
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
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
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
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 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
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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Jobs Past Powerful
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views

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