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 SCHAFFEROnce 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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I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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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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I used to be a print reporter.
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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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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.
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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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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 first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn’t graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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Government is just spending too much money.
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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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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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They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
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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.
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