I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
BOB SCHAFFERParents don’t like it, administrators don’t like it, and kids don’t like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it–which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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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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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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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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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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.
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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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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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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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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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And as a result, I guess I’m just kind of a rubberneck. I’m kind of a – someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don’t think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
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I used to be a print reporter.
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Parents don’t like it, administrators don’t like it, and kids don’t like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it–which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program.
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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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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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