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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

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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Christmas Football Thanksgiving
It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
BOB SCHAFFER

Challenges Literature Person
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

Football Nobody Police Reporter Show
It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
BOB SCHAFFER

Government Impossible Unlikely
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

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

Betting Doubt Himself
There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
BOB SCHAFFER

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

Jobs Literature 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?
BOB SCHAFFER

Complicated Government Way
But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
BOB SCHAFFER

Literature Matter Miserable
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

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

Canada Children Mother
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
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
A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.
BOB SCHAFFER

Morning Night People

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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