I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
BILL KELLEREvery technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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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 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’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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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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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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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.
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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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