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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

Bill Keller

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
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
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
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
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
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
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Ends Mean Movement
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
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Country Religious Rights
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
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Media Pioneers Thinking

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