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.
BOB SCHAFFERBut 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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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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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 if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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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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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 first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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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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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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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I’m interested in? Is it something I enjoy?
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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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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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Government is just spending too much money.
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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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