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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

Bill Keller

I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
BILL KELLER

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

Satan Scary Vote
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
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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Abet Enough May
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
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
BILL KELLER

Answers Curse Journalist
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.
BILL KELLER

Matter Mean Thinking Views
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
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
BILL KELLER

Country Religious Rights
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
BILL KELLER

Media Social Thinking
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
BILL KELLER

Democrat Entitlement Recoil

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