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.
BOB SCHAFFERThey’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture, like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays – beyond their meaning – a factor in our economy.
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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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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 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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I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
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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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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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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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A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.
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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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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.
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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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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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And as a result, I guess I’m just kind of a rubberneck. I’m kind of a – someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don’t think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
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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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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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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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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.
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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 truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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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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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 Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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