Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
BILL KELLERThe curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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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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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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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 Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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.
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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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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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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