I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
BILL KELLERThe Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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 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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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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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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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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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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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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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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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I don’t have dating tips.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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