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.
BILL KELLERCasual 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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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 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 have dating tips.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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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 make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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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 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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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