Bill Keller

It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a…

— Bill Keller

If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for…

— Bill Keller

One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm…

— Bill Keller

Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new…

— Bill Keller

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

— Bill Keller

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.

— Bill Keller

I don't have dating tips.

— Bill Keller

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

— Bill Keller

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

— Bill Keller

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want…

— Bill Keller

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

— Bill Keller

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…

— Bill Keller

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

— Bill Keller

Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That,…

— Bill Keller

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably…

— Bill Keller

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the…

— Bill Keller

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to…

— Bill Keller

Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has…

— Bill Keller

I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.

— Bill Keller

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

— Bill Keller

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea…

— Bill Keller

I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.

— Bill Keller

The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts…

— Bill Keller

I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.

— Bill Keller

Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

— Bill Keller