Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
BILL KELLERA vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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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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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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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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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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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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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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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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 Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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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.
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