I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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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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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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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 don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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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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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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I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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