Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
BOB SCHAFFERBut if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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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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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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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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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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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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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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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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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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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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Government is just spending too much money.
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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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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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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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I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
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We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They’ve heard it on the radio. They’ve seen it on the Internet. They’ve seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.
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