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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.

Bob Schaffer

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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Answers Literature Trying
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Jobs News People
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
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
Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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Accounts Newspapers Persons
The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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Firsts Government Way
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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Complicated Government Way
I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
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Confidence Mistakes Self Way
My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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Cancer People Thinking
They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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Life Literature Mean
I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
BOB SCHAFFER

Jobs Literature Thinking
It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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Challenges Literature Person
But, you know, they’re glad to see you when you show up to cover the football game. Nobody is ever glad to see a police reporter when he shows up.
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Football Nobody Police Reporter Show
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Mean Perspective Trying
I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
BOB SCHAFFER

Community Impact Thinking
Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
BOB SCHAFFER

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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.

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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.

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