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.
BILL KELLER
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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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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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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I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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