Bill Keller

Apparently the only person who can convince me of the legal and moral sense of hate crimes laws is Times columnist Bill Keller, because his case against them is so terribly bad. Keller has tardily joined the ranks of liberals so opposed, including Andrew Sullivan, the Quakers and also noted legal theorist Bill Maher. (He’s also found himself in the fine company of the Georgia State Supreme Court.) But that he’s chosen to come out in the context of Travyon Martin and the Tyler Clementi case...Read Full Story

Bill Keller, an Internet evangelist who has been vocal about Mormonism's cultish roots, is boldly proclaiming that Glenn Beck is "masquerading as an angel of light"--and using Christians to further his agenda and advance a cult.  Do You Like this Article? Then Like Us on Facebook.  Keller, founder of LivePrayer.com with its 2.4 million subscribers, has been taking public shots at Beck for the past five years. Specifically, he's been warning people that Beck has an agenda rooted in the...Read Full Story

Bill Keller, an Internet evangelist who has been vocal about Mormonism's cultish roots, is boldly proclaiming that Glenn Beck is "masquerading as an angel of light"--and using Christians to further his agenda and advance a cult.  Do You Like this Article? Then Like Us on Facebook.  Keller, founder of LivePrayer.com with its 2.4 million subscribers, has been taking public shots at Beck for the past five years. Specifically, he's been warning people that Beck has an agenda rooted in the...Read Full Story

Right wing evangelical Bill Keller issues $10,000 challenge to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow to produce President Obama's Hawaiian long-form birth certificate.Why are we still revisiting the issue of President Barack Obama's birth certificate? It seems that the right wing evangelicals just can't grasp the notion that a black man is president of the United States of America. Enter Bill Keller, leader of Internet-based LivePrayer. He has issued a $10,000 challenge to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow to produce...Read Full Story

Rupert Murdoch has not exactly gotten the best press lately. Since last summer, he has been embroiled in scandal over phone hacking that took place at newspapers owned by News Corporation. He appeared before a Parliament committee and a grand inquiry to testify about the malfeasance. But what of Fox News? Well, Bill Keller‘s newest [...]Read Full Story

Here are two images that will give Rupert Murdoch and Robert Thomson a good laugh: after Thursday evening's New York Times party welcoming new T Magazine editor Sally Singer, the captions for Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and executive editor Bill Keller on New York's society photo website-of-record, Patrick McMullan, were, well...off.Sulzberger was labeled Arthur Fulverberger, Jr.:Read More...Read Full Story

From the Wall Street Journal: New York Times Co. on Thursday named managing editor Jill Abramson to succeed Bill Keller as the Times's executive editor, putting a woman in the top editorial role for the first time as the 160-year-old paper attempts to reinvent its business around new digital products. Share Tweet Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet will succeed Ms. Abramson as managing editor. Mr. Keller, a former foreign correspondent for the Times who took the executive editor post in 2003...Read Full Story

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota Cranky Old Man Who Really Has No Original or Insightful Ideas About The Internet or Media in General But Thinks He Does Because He Lived in a High-Powered Bubble For Many Years as NYT Editor and Now Nobody Will Tell Him That His Columns Are All Tedious and Pedestrian Bill Keller has written a snide response to all the snide tweets about the snide response to his last snide column about the internet that was itself not particularly new or...Read Full Story

Bill Keller, former executive editor of The New York Times, rails against those who mock him. The newspaper published someone else's column without permission while he was busy insisting that copyright infringement is theft, and has been subjected to much ridicule as a result. The law should not go after minor transgressions. Moreover, I specifically said a real reform should also relax some copyright protections – such as cases where a work that is long out of print could be made widely...Read Full Story

Right wing evangelical Bill Keller calls Fox News' Glenn Beck out for portraying himself as a Chrisitan, says Beck likes "to call out people for their lies & deception."Food fight! Right wing evangelical Bill Keller, leader of Liveprayer.com, has taken offense with right wing nut Glenn Beck. Keller, who was in the national news a few years ago for saying "a vote for Romney is a vote for Satan," has turned his attention to another Mormon, Glenn Beck. Here's an excerpt from a press release that...Read Full Story