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Bill Keller

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
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
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.
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Including Printing Technology
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
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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
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
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
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
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
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
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

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