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Bill Keller

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
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
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
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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Abet Enough May
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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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Dollars Names Thinking
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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Feelings Internet Want
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
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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Privacy Thinking Treasure
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
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
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid

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