Quotes by Bill Keller

Bill Keller

American journalist

Lived from: 1949 -

Category: Media

Born: 18 january 1949

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  • Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
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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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  • 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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  • For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.
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  • 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.
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  • The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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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-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.
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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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  • 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.
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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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  • You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
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What are the most famous quotes from Bill Keller?

The two most famous quotes from Bill Keller are:

  • "Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want."
  • "Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite."

When did Bill Keller live?

Bill Keller is still alive and was born in 1949.