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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

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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.
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Jobs Past Powerful
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
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
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
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
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
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
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
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
Everything 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.
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Privacy Thinking Treasure
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views

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