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 SCHAFFERA great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
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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 is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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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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But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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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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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.
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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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The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
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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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