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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.

Bill Keller

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes 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
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
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
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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Jobs Past Powerful
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
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
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
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
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
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist

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