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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

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Bill Keller
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 18
Journalist
the United States of America
Press
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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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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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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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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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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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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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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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A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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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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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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Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
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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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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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Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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