I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
BILL KELLERMy 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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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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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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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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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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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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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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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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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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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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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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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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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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