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

Bill Keller

I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
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
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
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
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
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
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
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
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
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
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

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

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