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 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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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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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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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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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.
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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 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.
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Government is just spending too much money.
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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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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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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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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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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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I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
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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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