I’m a Capricorn, actually.
BILL KELLERAnyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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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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 don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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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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