Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
BILL KELLERI 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.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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 – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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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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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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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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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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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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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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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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.
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