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

Bill Keller

I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
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
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
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Media Pioneers Thinking
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
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.
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Dollars Names Thinking
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 don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
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 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
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
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want

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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