Talk about threats to national security — how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?
BOB SCHAFFERThe truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture, like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays – beyond their meaning – a factor in our economy.
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But here’s the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can’t. I can’t even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don’t get it.
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The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
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But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
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There’s fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.
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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.
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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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The government’s view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn’t want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
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