The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
BILL KELLERCasual reliance on unnamed sources…corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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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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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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I think there’s been a decline in the public’s access to what’s being done with their tax dollars, what’s being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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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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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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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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