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I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.

Bill Keller

Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
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
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
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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Media Pioneers Thinking
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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Celebrity Gossip Queens Wings
I don’t have dating tips.
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Dating Rules Tips
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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Interesting Tools Use
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
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
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
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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Abet Enough May
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking

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