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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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.
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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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For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.
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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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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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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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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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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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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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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 don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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I'm a Capricorn, actually.
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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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I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.
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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.
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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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In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.
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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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There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.