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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

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
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
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
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
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.
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Feelings Internet 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
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
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
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
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
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
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

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