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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.

Bob Schaffer

I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
BOB SCHAFFER

Jobs Literature Thinking
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
I used to be a print reporter.
BOB SCHAFFER

Literature Print Used
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Literature Past People
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Two Writing Years
The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
BOB SCHAFFER

Firsts Government Way
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Art Foundation Writing
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Football Jobs Sports
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Administration Parent Problem Trouble
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Boss Decision Thinking
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 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
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
BOB SCHAFFER

Country People Usual War
Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
BOB SCHAFFER

Accounts Newspapers Persons
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?
BOB SCHAFFER

Fun Mind People

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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