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Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

Bob Schaffer

Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
BOB SCHAFFER

Betting Doubt Himself
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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Division Loyalty Military
Parents don’t like it, administrators don’t like it, and kids don’t like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it–which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program.
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Administration Parent Problem Trouble
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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Christmas Football Thanksgiving
I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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Country Money Spending
Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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Accounts Newspapers Persons
My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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Canada Children Mother
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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Art Foundation Writing
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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Jobs News People
When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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Dollars Inspirational Motivation
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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Boss Decision Thinking
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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Complicated Government Way
My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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Cancer People Thinking
I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
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Community Impact Thinking
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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Morning Night People
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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Friday Holiday Weekend

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

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