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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

Bob Schaffer

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
My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
BOB SCHAFFER

Cancer People Thinking
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Ballots Light Occasion Party
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…
BOB SCHAFFER

Color Government Tired
My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
BOB SCHAFFER

Canada Children Mother
Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
BOB SCHAFFER

Accounts Newspapers Persons
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Friday Holiday Weekend
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 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
Government is just spending too much money.
BOB SCHAFFER

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

Public Relation Relations Trump
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
I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
BOB SCHAFFER

Community Impact Thinking
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Competition Guests Stories
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
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

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