Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
BILL KELLERThe Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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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I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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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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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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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 have dating tips.
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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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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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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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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 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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