The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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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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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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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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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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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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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.
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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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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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