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'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.
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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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When we learn something anonymously, we push very hard to bolster our reporting with on-the-record information and documents. But often the first alert of something going wrong comes from a nervous insider who wants to expose something amiss but can't afford to risk his or her job.
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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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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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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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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, who knows? But I would certainly want to ask a few questions.
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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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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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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.