Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
BILL KELLERBeating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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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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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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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’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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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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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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I don’t have dating tips.
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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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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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