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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

Bill Keller

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
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
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
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
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
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
Twitter 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.
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Interesting Tools Use
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
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
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

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