black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Bill Keller

I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
BILL KELLER

Media Social Thinking
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
BILL KELLER

Democrat Entitlement Recoil
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
BILL KELLER

Including Printing Technology
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
BILL KELLER

Challenges Discipline Important
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
BILL KELLER

Internet Pundit Want
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
BILL KELLER

Distraction Media Social
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
BILL KELLER

Deviation Discipline Movement
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
BILL KELLER

Country Religious Rights
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.
BILL KELLER

Dollars Names Thinking
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.
BILL KELLER

Celebrity Gossip Queens Wings
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.
BILL KELLER

Believe Principles Wikileaks
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
BILL KELLER

People Smart Stupid
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.
BILL KELLER

Privacy Thinking Treasure
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
BILL KELLER

Media Tools Views
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
BILL KELLER

Actually Capricorns Create
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
BILL KELLER

Answers Curse Journalist

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Keller Quotes