One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
BILL KELLERThe Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can’t pick one favorite.
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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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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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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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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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’m a Capricorn, actually.
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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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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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