Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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.
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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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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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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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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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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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