The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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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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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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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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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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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.
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