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.
BOB SCHAFFERA 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.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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, 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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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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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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They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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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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Government is just spending too much money.
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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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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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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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I used to be a print reporter.
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