One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
BILL KELLERI 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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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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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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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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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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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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I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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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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