List of Bill Keller Quotes

Casual Reliance On Unnamed Sources...corrodes Our Credibility And, In Cases That Are Rare But Not Rare Enough, May Abet Journalistic Malpractice.

Being An Editor Has Been A Source Of Great Satisfaction, But Writing Is The Thing I Truly Love.

I May Be The Old-media Id, But I Think I May Be Entitled To Some Credit For Being A New-media Pioneer.

I Think Twitter Is A Fabulous Tool. Crowd-sourcing By Twitter Is Useful In Getting Early Warnings.

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.

Beating Up On The So-called Elite Media Has A Nice Populist Ring To It.

Every Time My Tweetdeck Shoots A New Tweet To My Desktop, I Experience A Little Dopamine Spritz That Takes Me Away From... From... Wait, What Was I Saying?

Liberation Movements - Prizing Ends Over Means - Are Not Always Particular About Their Friends Or Scrupulous About Their Transactions.

Liberation Movements - Operating Surreptitiously And Conspiratorially - Thrive On Discipline And Suspicion, And Punish Deviation Or Dissent.

I Don't Have Dating Tips.

Julian Assange, The Wikileaks Founder, Has On Several Occasions Talked About Transparency As An Absolute Principle. I Don't Personally Believe That.

I'm A Capricorn, Actually.

I Don't Think Anyone At Fox Believes They Are Producing Even-handed, Impartial Coverage.

I Think There's A Misconception That I'm Opposed To Social Media.

I Make A Joke That I'm The Internet Curmudgeon, But 'wary' Is A Good Way To Put It.

I Do Care If Religious Doctrine Becomes An Excuse To Exclude My Fellow Citizens From The Rights And Protections Our Country Promises.

The Democrats Generally Recoil From The Subject Of Entitlements.

You Don't Want To Go Around Willy-nilly Suing News Organizations. That's Probably Self-defeating.

There Is Something Decidedly Faux About The Camaraderie Of Facebook, Something Illusory About The Connectedness Of Twitter.

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.

Maybe We're All A Little Too Desperate These Days For A Simple Formula To Explain How Our Safe World Came Unhinged. That, As Much As Anything, May Explain One Of The More Enduring Conspiracy Theories Of The Moment, The Notion That We Are About To Send A Quarter Of A Million American Soldiers To War For The Sake Of Israel.

Buying An Aggregator And Calling It A Content Play Is A Little Like A Company's Announcing Plans To Improve Its Cash Position By Hiring A Counterfeiter.

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.

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?