Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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 don’t have dating tips.
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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 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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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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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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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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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 make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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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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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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