Ask Bill Keller

What career opportunities do you think will be available in the future for college students studying journalism?

In light of the recent financial troubles at newspapers, do you think it's appropriate for the newspaper industry to be taken on as a philanthropic effort?

Is Kim Il Jong getting up in the morning an "ACT OF WAR"?

Concerning all the conflicts around the world, do you think the media is showing us the right information?

Many people argue that there should always be freedom of the press. Do you agree with this idea, or do you believe that the press, and the media in general does need to be regulated on some level?

Why doesn't your paper present the news fairly? How did it end up that you have all liberals working for you? If you believe in diversity, why don't you believe in diversity of thought?

Why do you think the press generally gave the Bush Administration a free pass on all the "misleading" statements made to get us to war in Iraq. And then to justify the war in July 2003, Bush stated that "we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. And, therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power ...". No one in the news media called him out on what was clearly not true. Did the illegal wiretapping give him the goods on the media? Or was their failure the result of a desire to go along to get along?

You recently appeared as part of a Daily Show segment on the Times that treated the paper as a comical anachronism. How do you respond to the some who seem almost eager for newspapers to die out?

I am a retired American citizen who has watched the Michael Jackson fiasco avidly for the last week. While I feel he was a gifted entertainer and understand the shock to his family and fans over the circumstances of his death, I do feel, however, the Jackson family is using the media to support his fortunes and misfortunes over the years to their benefit. The fact is he is gone and his music and some of his private endeavors will always live on. Didn't he have life insurance to cover his burial and provide for his children without challenge. That should have been his most important priority as a father if he loved them so much. I know it is a complicated circumstance but taxpayers can't take much more from the Los Angeles area. There is a crisis to America's stability and the question is now hopefully we survive and focus on what's important to our future not Hollywood hype.

What do you think of the controversy at The Washington Post regarding the paid "access dinners"?

What do you think of Amazon.com's Kindle?

With rapid news update via multiple media such as online news paper,online broadcast, RSS, online telecast, in our opinion as
a journalist, how much information is too much information?

Does the Times have a plan to making the print news business financially successful, where others are failing? (i.e., Doing less reporting, "better"? Merging with other news groups?)

In your view, what is the most important story that is currently being under-reported?

Bearing in mind the aggressive, pervasive and competitive nature of online journalism and ease of accessing information from the internet these days, do you frankly think the print media has still got a future in the present milieu?

Hi Bill,

Since GM has shown me nothing in the past five years why do we as a nation keep rewarding them with our hard earned cash time and time again? Wold it be the worst things possible if AIG, GM, and Chrysler all went out of business? Can you help me understand why Obama is giving them all this cash? My cash and your cash?

Trent

Hello. I missed to ask Robert Kiyosaki this question, because it`s related to his new book Conspiracy of the rich. The question is like this : who do you think is the target of this financial crisis? a crisis that hadn`d come just like this, it was created. do you belive it`s against China?

My dick smells?

The New York Times had no problem leaking state secrets that very likely assisted terrorists. The Times ignored the requests of the Bush Administration repeatedly, and claimed the "truth" required that thisinformation be published.

Yet the New York Times had no qualms about lying about the kidnapping of one of its own reporters, to protect the safety of the reporter, at the expense of the truth.
What is the difference, other than the Times liberal desire to hurt the Bush Administration, even at the expense of national security?

The days of people getting their news and information from a single source such as a newpaper are gone. More and more people gleam their information from a variety of free online sources which may include newspapers. With more newspapers facing cutbacks to staffs and resources, how can newspapers survive and stay competitive?

From your perspective and experience would you be able to tell us when and where a good journalism stopes giving the advance to the politics and opposite, and what is the crucial point for someone working in this kind of industry to become a good journalist?

Bill - if reporting both sides of the story and not making up news to help the Democrats - Marxists and Socialists - ruin our country would double or triple it's potentional reader base and save the paper - why are you still not doing it? Could you pass that along to MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Boston Globe, Washing Post, etc.?

Thanks!

With The burgeoning of innumerous TV Channels, do you think that TV as a news medium has sounded the death - knell of the print medium, with events worldwide being viewed and seen by more people, do you feel that newspapers would gradually become passe.
Arvinder Singh Walia
Kolkata India

What you think about Iran pressure over journalists?

Nowadays the web application twitter is helping so much with Iram election coverage. What your opinion about twitter, and do you think to apply it on NYT?