I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
BILL KELLERTwitter 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.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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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 Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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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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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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