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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 think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
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
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
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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Country Religious Rights
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
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
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
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
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
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
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 make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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Internet Way

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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