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Bill Keller

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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Privacy Thinking Treasure
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
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Country Religious Rights
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
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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Media Pioneers Thinking
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
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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Abet Enough May
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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Children Chose Journalism
Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Ends Mean Movement
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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Competition Giving Ideas
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
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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Jobs Past Powerful

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