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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

Bill Keller

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
BILL KELLER

Media Nice Rings
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
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
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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 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 make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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Internet Way
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 have dating tips.
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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 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
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
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.
BILL KELLER

Jobs Past Powerful
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
BILL KELLER

Actually Capricorns Create

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