The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
BILL KELLERMy view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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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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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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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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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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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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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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Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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