The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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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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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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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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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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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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I used to be a print reporter.
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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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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 Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
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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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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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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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