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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

Bill Keller

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
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
BILL KELLER

Satan Scary Vote
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
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 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
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
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
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
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
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
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
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
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

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