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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.

Bill Keller

I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
BILL KELLER

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
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
BILL KELLER

Including Printing Technology
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.
BILL KELLER

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

Answers Curse Journalist
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
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
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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Celebrity Gossip Queens Wings
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.
BILL KELLER

Competition Giving Ideas
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
BILL KELLER

Actually Capricorns Create
I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
BILL KELLER

Internet Way
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
BILL KELLER

Media Tools Views
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can’t pick one favorite.
BILL KELLER

Children Chose Journalism

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