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
answers curse journalist
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
smart stupid people
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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?
views media tools
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
technology printing presses
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
ideas giving competition
One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.
want internet pundits
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
children would-be journalism
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
country religious rights
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
mean movement ends
Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
discipline movement deviation
Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
jobs powerful past
It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.
capricorns
I'm a Capricorn, actually.
way internet curmudgeon
I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.