Quotes by Bill Keller

About Bill Keller:

Bill Keller is an American journalist. He is a writer for The New York Times, where he was executive editor from July 2003 until September 2011. He announced on June 2, 2011, that he would step down from the position to become a full-time writer. Jill Abramson replaced him as executive editor.
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative broadcasting, or liberal people doing liberal broadcasting, or conservative blogs or liberal blogs.

Bill Keller

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for him? Personally, I might not disqualify him out of hand; one out of three Americans believe we have had Visitors and, hey, ...

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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-...

Bill Keller

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 sen...

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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

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.

Bill Keller

Author Bio

  • NameBill Keller
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornJanuary 18, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist