One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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 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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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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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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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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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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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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