Bill Keller Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Bill Keller:

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

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.

Bill Keller

I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.'

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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.

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

I'm a Capricorn, actually.

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bill Keller

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

Bill Keller

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.

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller