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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

Bill Keller

I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
BILL KELLER

Internet Way
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
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
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
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.
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Believe Principles Wikileaks
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 may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
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Media Pioneers Thinking
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline 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
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
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology

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