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I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

Bill Keller

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
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
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
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 Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
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
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
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 curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
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
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

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

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