Bill Keller Quotes

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• Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
• Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
• My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
• 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…
• Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
• Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
• I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
• I don't have dating tips.
• I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
• I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.
• I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.
• I'm a Capricorn, actually.
• Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.
• Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
• Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
• 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…

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