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Bill Keller

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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Feelings Internet Want
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
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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Matter Mean Thinking Views
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
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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Celebrity Gossip Queens Wings
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
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
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
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings

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