Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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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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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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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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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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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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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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