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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 do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
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Country Religious Rights
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
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.
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Believe Principles Wikileaks
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
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
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
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.
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Matter Mean Thinking Views
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want

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