Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
BILL KELLEREvery technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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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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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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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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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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 don’t have dating tips.
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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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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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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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