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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.

Bill Keller

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
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.
BILL KELLER

Feelings Internet 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.
BILL KELLER

Matter Mean Thinking Views
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
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.
BILL KELLER

Believe Principles Wikileaks
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
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can’t pick one favorite.
BILL KELLER

Children Chose Journalism
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
BILL KELLER

Satan Scary Vote
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
BILL KELLER

Believe Foxes Thinking
I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
BILL KELLER

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

Media Nice Rings
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
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
BILL KELLER

Media Tools Views
Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
BILL KELLER

Ends Mean Movement
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
BILL KELLER

Challenges Discipline Important

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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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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