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

Bill Keller

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
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
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Media Nice Rings
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
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
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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Country Religious Rights
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
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
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
I make a joke that I’m the Internet curmudgeon, but ‘wary’ is a good way to put it.
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Internet Way
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
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

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