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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.

Bill Keller

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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Children Chose Journalism
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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Internet Way
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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Interesting Tools Use
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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Matter Mean Thinking Views
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
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
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
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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Dollars Names Thinking
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
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
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings

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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