But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
BOB SCHAFFERTalk about threats to national security — how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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 had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
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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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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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I used to be a print reporter.
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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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I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.
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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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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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I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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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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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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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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