The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
BILL KELLERThe curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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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I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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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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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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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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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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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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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.
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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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