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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.

Bill Keller

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
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
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
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
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
I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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Internet Way
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
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
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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Dollars Names Thinking
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
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
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important

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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