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.
BILL KELLERI may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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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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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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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I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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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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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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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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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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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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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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