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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? "
Bill Keller
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" Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media. "
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" 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. "
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" Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want. "
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" My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion. "
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" 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. "
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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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" The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers. "
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" I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage. "
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" I'm a Capricorn, actually. "
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" Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid. "
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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 if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.' "
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