black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Bill Keller

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
BILL KELLER

Distraction Media Social
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.
BILL KELLER

Competition Giving Ideas
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.
BILL KELLER

Jobs Past Powerful
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
BILL KELLER

Deviation Discipline Movement
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
BILL KELLER

People Smart Stupid
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.
BILL KELLER

Interesting Tools Use
I don’t have dating tips.
BILL KELLER

Dating Rules Tips
Casual reliance on unnamed sources…corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.
BILL KELLER

Abet Enough May
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
BILL KELLER

Answers Curse Journalist
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.
BILL KELLER

Dollars Names Thinking
I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
BILL KELLER

Media Pioneers Thinking
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 KELLER

Privacy Thinking Treasure
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
BILL KELLER

Internet Pundit Want
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
BILL KELLER

Including Printing Technology
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
BILL KELLER

Actually Capricorns Create
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can’t pick one favorite.
BILL KELLER

Children Chose Journalism

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Keller Quotes