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.
BOB SCHAFFERThey’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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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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One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I’m interested in? Is it something I enjoy?
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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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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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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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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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Talk about threats to national security — how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?
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Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
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Well, you know, in any political campaign, you’re gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it’ll hurt the guy on the other side.
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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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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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