Bill Keller
Bill Keller
Bill Kelleris 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 January 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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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'm not sure journalists fully appreciate the threat confronting us. The Times in the eavesdropping case, the Post for its CIA prison stories, and everyone else who has tried to look behind the war on terror.
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What our reporting has done is set off an intense national debate about the proper balance between security and liberty.
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We do our best to make sure that doesn't happen, but occasionally it does. But notebooks are not by any means a vehicle for people to slip their personal opinions into the newspaper.
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This news organization is a national treasure. I will do everything in my power to uphold its high standards, preserve its integrity and build on its achievements.
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Some of it is just, 'I can't talk to you on the phone anymore,' and some of it is, 'I think I better lay low for a while.'
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it sounds like the administration is declaring war at home on the values it professes to be promoting abroad.
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For a couple more days she (Miller) remains under a contempt-of-court order, and is not yet clear of legal jeopardy,
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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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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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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.