Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
BOB SCHAFFERBut, 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.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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Government is just spending too much money.
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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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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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I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
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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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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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There’s fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.
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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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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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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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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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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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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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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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