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.
BILL KELLERThe Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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 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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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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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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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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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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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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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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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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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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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