The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
BOB SCHAFFERObviously, 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.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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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But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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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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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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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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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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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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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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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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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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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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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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