Bill Keller Quotes

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?

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

I'm a Capricorn, actually.

There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

I don't have dating tips.

I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.

Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

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

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.

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

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.

I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

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.

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.

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

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

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.

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

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

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

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.

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.

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.