Top 47 Bill Keller Quotes
#1. I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.
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#2. The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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#3. 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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#4. A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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#5. 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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#6. Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
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#7. There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
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#8. One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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#9. My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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#10. The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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#11. 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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#12. Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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#13. 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.
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#14. Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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#15. 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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#16. Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.
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#17. Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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#18. I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings.
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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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 Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.
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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative broadcasting, or liberal people doing liberal broadcasting, or conservative blogs or liberal blogs.
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#25. 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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#26. You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.
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#30. Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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#31. I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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#32. 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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#33. The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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#34. Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.
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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.'
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#38. I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.
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#39. 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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#40. Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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#41. 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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#43. There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
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#44. 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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#46. My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
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#47. I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.
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