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

Bill Keller

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
BILL KELLER

Media Nice Rings
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.
BILL KELLER

Matter Mean Thinking Views
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 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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Celebrity Gossip Queens Wings
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
BILL KELLER

Answers Curse Journalist
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 – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
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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Privacy Thinking Treasure
I don’t have dating tips.
BILL KELLER

Dating Rules Tips
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
Casual reliance on unnamed sources…corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.
BILL KELLER

Abet Enough May
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
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.
BILL KELLER

Interesting Tools Use
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
BILL KELLER

Satan Scary Vote
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
BILL KELLER

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

People Smart Stupid

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