I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
BILL KELLERMy 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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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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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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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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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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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