A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.
BOB SCHAFFERMy mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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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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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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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.
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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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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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They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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Government is just spending too much money.
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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn’t graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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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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