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

Bill Keller

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

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

Satan Scary Vote
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
BILL KELLER

Media Tools Views
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.
BILL KELLER

Feelings Internet Want
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
BILL KELLER

Answers Curse Journalist
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
BILL KELLER

Actually Capricorns Create
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
BILL KELLER

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

Distraction Media Social
Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
BILL KELLER

Ends Mean Movement
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
I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
BILL KELLER

Internet Way

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