Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
BILL KELLERIt’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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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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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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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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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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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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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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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 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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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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