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

Bill Keller

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
I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
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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
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
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
I think there’s been a decline in the public’s access to what’s being done with their tax dollars, what’s being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.
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Dollars Names Thinking
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.
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Competition Giving Ideas
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
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 view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
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
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology

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