Casual reliance on unnamed sources…corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.
BILL KELLERLiberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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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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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
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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 don’t have dating tips.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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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 think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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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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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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Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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