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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

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
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
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 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
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
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 think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
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
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
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
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
Twitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.
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Interesting Tools Use
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist

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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