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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Bill Keller

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.
BILL KELLER

Privacy Thinking Treasure
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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Jobs Past Powerful
I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
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Media Pioneers Thinking
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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Competition Giving Ideas
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
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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Abet Enough May
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
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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Country Religious Rights
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Ends Mean Movement

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