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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More Bill Keller Quotes
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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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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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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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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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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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 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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Casual reliance on unnamed sources…corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.
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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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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 make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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