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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.

Bill Keller

I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
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
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
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
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
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
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

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