Bill Keller Quotes

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Bill Keller

Profession : Editor

Birth : June 18, 1949

I don't have dating tips.

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

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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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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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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.

Bill Keller

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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I'm a Capricorn, actually.

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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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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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You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

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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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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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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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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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I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.

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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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