Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can’t pick one favorite.
BILL KELLERChoosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can’t pick one favorite.
BILL KELLERThe curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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 KELLERMy 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 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 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 KELLERI make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
BILL KELLERI don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
BILL KELLERA vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
BILL KELLERI don’t have dating tips.
BILL KELLERCasual reliance on unnamed sources…corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.
BILL KELLERI think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
BILL KELLERI do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
BILL KELLERI’m a Capricorn, actually.
BILL KELLERThe Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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