Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
BOB SCHAFFERThough 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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Government is just spending too much money.
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I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
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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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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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I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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There’s fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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