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I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.

Bill Keller

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
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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People Smart Stupid
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
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
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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 most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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Challenges Discipline Important
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
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 anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Believe Foxes Thinking
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
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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Believe Principles Wikileaks
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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Including Printing Technology
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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Children Chose Journalism

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