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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.

Bob Schaffer

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 SCHAFFER

Football Jobs Sports
Talk about threats to national security — how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?
BOB SCHAFFER

Complicated Government Way
When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
BOB SCHAFFER

Dollars Inspirational Motivation
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Ballots Light Occasion Party
Government is just spending too much money.
BOB SCHAFFER

Government Spending
I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
BOB SCHAFFER

Jobs Literature Thinking
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Jobs News People
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Administration Parent Problem Trouble
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…
BOB SCHAFFER

Color Government Tired
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Important People Thinking
I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
BOB SCHAFFER

Country Money Spending
The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
BOB SCHAFFER

Eyebrows Moscow Pride
But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
BOB SCHAFFER

Literature Matter Miserable
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Games People Smart
My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
BOB SCHAFFER

Canada Children Mother
Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
BOB SCHAFFER

Public Relation Relations Trump

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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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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