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

Bill Keller

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

Internet Way
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.
BILL KELLER

Celebrity Gossip Queens Wings
Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
BILL KELLER

Ends Mean Movement
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
BILL KELLER

Challenges Discipline Important
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
BILL KELLER

Answers Curse Journalist
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
BILL KELLER

Democrat Entitlement Recoil
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
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
BILL KELLER

Internet Pundit Want
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
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
BILL KELLER

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

People Smart Stupid
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
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
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

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

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