I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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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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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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I don’t have dating tips.
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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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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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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 think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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