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

Bill Keller

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

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
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
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
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
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.
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Jobs Past Powerful
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
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
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
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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Feelings Internet Want

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