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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

Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
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
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
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
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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Dollars Names Thinking
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
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
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
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
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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Celebrity Gossip Queens Wings
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
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
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social

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