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

Bill Keller

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Answers Curse Journalist
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
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Actually Capricorns Create
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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Internet Pundit Want
Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it’s also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.
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Privacy Thinking Treasure
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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Media Tools Views
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 anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
BILL KELLER

Believe Foxes Thinking
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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Deviation Discipline Movement
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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Democrat Entitlement Recoil
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 think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
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Media Social Thinking
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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Satan Scary Vote
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 most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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Distraction Media Social
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
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
BILL KELLER

Including Printing Technology

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