I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
BILL KELLERBeating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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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 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 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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I don’t have dating tips.
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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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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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