Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
BOB SCHAFFERThe truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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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 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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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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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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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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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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Government is just spending too much money.
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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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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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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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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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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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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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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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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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