Bill Keller Quotes

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• One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

  Bill Keller

  Discipline, Challenges, Important

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

  Bill Keller

  Smart, Stupid, People

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

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  Media, Distraction, Social

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• 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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  Children, Would Be, Journalism

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• 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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  Understanding, Important, Division

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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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  Mean, Thinking, Views

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• Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.

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  Want, Internet, Pundits

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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.

  Bill Keller

  Queens, Celebrity Gossip, Wings

  "The NYT versus the Huffington Post: a cat fight over kitten videos" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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• 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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  Jobs, Powerful, Past

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.

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• A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.

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  Scary, Vote, Satan

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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.

  Bill Keller

  Couple, Believe, Gay

  "God and George W. Bush". www.nytimes.com. May 17, 2003.

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

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  Views, Media, Tools

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

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  Technology, Printing, Including

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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• The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

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  Answers, Curse, Journalist

  "Not dead yet: the newspaper in the days of digital anarchy" by Bill Keller, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2007.

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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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  Feelings, Want, Internet

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• 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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  Thinking, Treasure, Privacy

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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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  Dad, Mind, Kind

  "Exclusive Q&A: Bill Keller on Leaving the Times, Fox & More". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2011.

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• I'm a Capricorn, actually.

  Bill Keller

  Capricorns

  "Exclusive Q&A: Bill Keller on Leaving the Times, Fox & MoreBy Scott Raab". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

  Bill Keller

  Believe, Principles, Wikileaks

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• Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

  Bill Keller

  Discipline, Movement, Deviation

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• Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

  Bill Keller

  Writing, Editors, Satisfaction

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.

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• I don't have dating tips.

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  Dating

  "Bill Keller: The Esquire Exit Interview, with Scott Raab". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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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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  Thinking, Media, Pioneers

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.

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• I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings.

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  Thinking, Tools, Warning

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.

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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.

  Bill Keller

  Ideas, Giving, Competition

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.

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