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

Bill Keller

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
BILL KELLER

Democrat Entitlement Recoil
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
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
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
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
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can’t pick one favorite.
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Children Chose Journalism
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
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
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
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
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
BILL KELLER

Media Tools Views
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
BILL KELLER

Media Nice Rings

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

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