Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
BILL KELLERA vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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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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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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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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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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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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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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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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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Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can’t pick one favorite.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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