Casual reliance on unnamed sources…corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.
BILL KELLERI don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
More Bill Keller Quotes
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Liberation 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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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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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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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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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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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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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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