Bill Keller Quotes

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

Service, Whatever, Anyone

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
Bill Keller

Nice, Media, Ring

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

Play, Company, Content

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

Children, Moment, Journalism

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

Technology, Price, Press

Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I saying?
Bill Keller

Time, Experience, Saying

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.
Bill Keller

Time, Everything, Made

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

Time, Business, Heart

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

Care, Country, Rights

I don't have dating tips.
Bill Keller

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

Anyone, Believes, Fox

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

Time, Give, Matter

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.
Bill Keller

Freedom, Against, Idea

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

Nothing, Against, Liberal

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

Good, Put, Joke

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

Cannot, Earth, Fair

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

Social, Media, Opposed

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.
Bill Keller

Hope, Done, Public

I'm a Capricorn, actually.
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, who knows? But I would certainly want to ask a few questions.
Bill Keller

Him, Said, Vote

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

Words, Find, Become

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

Principle, Occasions, Talked

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

Discipline, Suspicion, Dissent

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

Friends, Means, Ends

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

Dad, Everything, Problem

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Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: June 18, 1949

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