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Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Bob Schaffer

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
BOB SCHAFFER

Confidence Mistakes Self Way
Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
BOB SCHAFFER

Division Loyalty Military
Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
BOB SCHAFFER

Public Relation Relations Trump
A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.
BOB SCHAFFER

Morning Night People
But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
BOB SCHAFFER

Literature Matter Miserable
They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
BOB SCHAFFER

Life Literature Mean
It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
BOB SCHAFFER

Challenges Literature Person
My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
BOB SCHAFFER

Cancer People Thinking
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Friday Holiday Weekend
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Answers Literature Trying
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Agency News Ukraine
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Ballots Light Occasion Party
Government is just spending too much money.
BOB SCHAFFER

Government Spending
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Hands Touching Voters
But here’s the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can’t. I can’t even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don’t get it.
BOB SCHAFFER

Games People Smart
I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
BOB SCHAFFER

Community Impact Thinking

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