The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
BILL KELLERThe Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
BILL KELLERA vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
BILL KELLERLiberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
BILL KELLERI think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
BILL KELLERI make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
BILL KELLERThe 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 KELLEROne 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 KELLERI don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
BILL KELLERJulian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.
BILL KELLEREverything 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.
BILL KELLERLiberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
BILL KELLERThe curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
BILL KELLEROne of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
BILL KELLERI may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
BILL KELLERThe most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
BILL KELLERTwitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.
BILL KELLER