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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

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

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