I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
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.
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.
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
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?
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.
Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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.
I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.
You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.
