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

Bill Keller

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
BILL KELLER

Satan Scary Vote
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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Matter Mean Thinking Views
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
BILL KELLER

Media Nice Rings
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.
BILL KELLER

Believe Principles Wikileaks
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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Children Chose Journalism
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.
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Privacy Thinking Treasure
Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Ends Mean Movement
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
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
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
BILL KELLER

Challenges Discipline Important
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
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
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

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