Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
BILL KELLERThe curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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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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I don’t have dating tips.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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.
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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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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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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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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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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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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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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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