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.
BOB SCHAFFERBut if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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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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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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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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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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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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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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 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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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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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.
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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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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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One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I’m interested in? Is it something I enjoy?
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