I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
BILL KELLERLiberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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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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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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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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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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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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