Bill Keller Quotes
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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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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Most recently, the president's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum - a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power to arrest gay lovers in their bedrooms, or even to criminalize couples who use contraceptives - was an occasion to wonder what, exactly, Mr. Bush was born-again into.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.
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You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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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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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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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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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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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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Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.
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Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.
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I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings.
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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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Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.
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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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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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Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I saying?
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I'm a Capricorn, actually.
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I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.
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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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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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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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