Quotes from Bill Keller

I don't have dating tips.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

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

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.

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

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.

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

There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

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.

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

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.'

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?