My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
BOB SCHAFFERThe 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.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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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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Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander’s boss to get that changed.
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It’s no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.
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But, you know, they’re glad to see you when you show up to cover the football game. Nobody is ever glad to see a police reporter when he shows up.
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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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Government is just spending too much money.
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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone’s life on every single story that he covers. It’s not like being a sports reporter. That’s a great job and all that and takes certain skills.
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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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The revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government…
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I used to be a print reporter.
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