The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
BOB SCHAFFERGood policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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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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They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
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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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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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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 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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I used to be a print reporter.
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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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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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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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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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