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.
BILL KELLEROne of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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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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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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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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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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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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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