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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Bill Keller

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
BILL KELLER

Including Printing Technology
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
BILL KELLER

Satan Scary Vote
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
BILL KELLER

Country Religious Rights
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.
BILL KELLER

Matter Mean Thinking Views
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
BILL KELLER

Internet Way
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.
BILL KELLER

Competition Giving Ideas
Twitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.
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Interesting Tools Use
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.
BILL KELLER

Celebrity Gossip Queens Wings
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
BILL KELLER

Internet Pundit Want
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
BILL KELLER

Democrat Entitlement Recoil
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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.
BILL KELLER

Privacy Thinking Treasure
I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
BILL KELLER

Media Pioneers Thinking
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

Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

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