But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
BOB SCHAFFERNowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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The 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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I used to be a print reporter.
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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn’t graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
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They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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Government is just spending too much money.
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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.
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Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.
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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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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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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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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
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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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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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