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 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.
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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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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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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 Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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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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I think there’s been a decline in the public’s access to what’s being done with their tax dollars, what’s being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.
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