Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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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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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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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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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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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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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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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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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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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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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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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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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