The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
BOB SCHAFFERThe recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
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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 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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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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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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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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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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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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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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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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