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.
BILL KELLERI do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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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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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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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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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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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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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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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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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 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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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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.
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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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