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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

Bill Keller

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
BILL KELLER

Media Tools Views
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
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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Matter Mean Thinking Views
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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Media Pioneers Thinking
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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Internet Way
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
BILL KELLER

Challenges Discipline Important
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
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
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
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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Dollars Names Thinking

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

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