Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
BILL KELLEROne 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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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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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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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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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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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