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 SCHAFFERI would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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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I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
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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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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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The revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government…
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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
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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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Government is just spending too much money.
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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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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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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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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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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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But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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