I’m a Capricorn, actually.
BILL KELLEROne of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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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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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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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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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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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I don’t have dating tips.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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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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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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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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