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
queens celebrity-gossip wings
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.
feelings want internet
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.
discipline challenges important
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
answers curse journalist
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
entitlement democrat recoil
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
media distraction social
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
smart stupid people
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
self organization want
You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
war simple israel
Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.
interesting tools use
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.
scary vote satan
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
mean thinking views
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.
waiting littles dopamine
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?
dad mind kind
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?