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

Bill Keller

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
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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Believe Principles Wikileaks
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
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
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
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
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
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
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 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 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
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil

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