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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

Bill Keller

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
BILL KELLER

People Smart Stupid
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

Jobs Past Powerful
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
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.
BILL KELLER

Competition Giving Ideas
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can’t pick one favorite.
BILL KELLER

Children Chose Journalism
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
BILL KELLER

Answers Curse Journalist
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
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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Media Pioneers Thinking
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
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.
BILL KELLER

Celebrity Gossip Queens Wings
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
BILL KELLER

Internet Way
Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Ends Mean Movement
I don’t have dating tips.
BILL KELLER

Dating Rules Tips
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.
BILL KELLER

Believe Principles Wikileaks

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

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