The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
BOB SCHAFFERNowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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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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Well, you know, in any political campaign, you’re gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it’ll hurt the guy on the other side.
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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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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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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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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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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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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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The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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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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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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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 is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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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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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.
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