Bill Keller famous quotes

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

#Writing #Editors #Satisfaction

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.
-- Bill Keller

#Jobs #Powerful #Past

I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
-- Bill Keller

#Thinking #Media #Pioneers

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

#Thinking #Tools #Warning

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

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.
-- Bill Keller

#Queens #Wings #Adorable

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

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

#Discipline #Movement #Deviation

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
-- Bill Keller

#Mean #Movement #Ends

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.
-- Bill Keller

#Feelings #Want #Internet

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

#Discipline #Challenges #Important

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

#Answers #Curse #Journalist

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
-- Bill Keller

#Entitlement #Democrat #Recoil

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

#Media #Distraction #Social

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

#Camaraderie #Connectedness

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

#Smart #Stupid #People

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

#Self #Organization #Suing

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.
-- Bill Keller

#Play #Calling #Cash

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?
-- Bill Keller

#Waiting #Littles #Dopamine

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.
-- Bill Keller

#Mean #Thinking #Views

I'm a Capricorn, actually.
-- Bill Keller

#Capricorns

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

#Thinking #Media #Social

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

#Nice #Media #Rings

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

#Abet #May #Enough

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

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.
-- Bill Keller

#Thinking #Treasure #Privacy

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.
-- Bill Keller

#Thinking #Names #Dollars

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

#Technology #Printing #Printing Press

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

#Views #Media #Tools

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

#Dad #Mind #Kind

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

#Want #Internet #Pundits

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

#Children #Would Be #Journalism

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

#Country #Religious #Rights

I don't have dating tips.
-- Bill Keller

#Dating

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

#Believe #Thinking #Foxes

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

#Way #Internet #Curmudgeon

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
-- Bill Keller

#Scary #Vote #Satan