Bill Keller Quotes

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 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?
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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.
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.
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
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.
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.
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
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.
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.
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
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