black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.
BILL KELLER

Believe Principles Wikileaks
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
BILL KELLER

Answers Curse Journalist
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
BILL KELLER

Media Social Thinking
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
BILL KELLER

Deviation Discipline Movement
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
BILL KELLER

Challenges Discipline Important
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
BILL KELLER

People Smart Stupid
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
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.
BILL KELLER

Matter Mean Thinking Views
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
BILL KELLER

Internet Pundit Want
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
BILL KELLER

Believe Foxes Thinking
I don’t have dating tips.
BILL KELLER

Dating Rules Tips
Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
BILL KELLER

Ends Mean Movement
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
BILL KELLER

Actually Capricorns Create
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
BILL KELLER

Media Tools Views
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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Keller Quotes