I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
BILL KELLERThe Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t have dating tips.
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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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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 don’t think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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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’m a Capricorn, actually.
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