They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
BOB SCHAFFEROne 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?
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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I used to be a print reporter.
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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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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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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 are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
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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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Government is just spending too much money.
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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 had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
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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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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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