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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.

Bill Keller

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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Celebrity Gossip Queens Wings
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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Country Religious Rights
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
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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Competition Giving Ideas
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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Children Chose Journalism
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
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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Interesting Tools Use
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Ends Mean Movement
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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Jobs Past Powerful
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
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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Feelings Internet Want

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