Bill Keller quotes

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. (Bill Keller)
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions. View quote
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid. View quote
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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. View quote
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises. View quote
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want. View quote
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers. View quote
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion. View quote
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Bill Keller)
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises. View quote
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I don't have dating tips. View quote
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Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions. View quote
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I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media. View quote
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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. View quote
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Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent. View quote
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements. View quote
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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it. View quote
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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? View quote
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You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating. (Bill Keller)
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter. View quote
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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. View quote
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People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers. View quote
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I'm a Capricorn, actually. View quote
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