Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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One of the reasons that I’m a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I’m delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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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’m a Capricorn, actually.
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I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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