Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
BILL KELLERI 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 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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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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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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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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 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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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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 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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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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