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.
BILL KELLERBeating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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.
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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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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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