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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

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
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
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
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
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
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
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
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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Believe Principles Wikileaks
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
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
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
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
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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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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