Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
BILL KELLERLiberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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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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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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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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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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