Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
BILL KELLERThe 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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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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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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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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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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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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