I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
BOB SCHAFFERMy mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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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 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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There’s fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.
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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.
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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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But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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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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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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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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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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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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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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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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I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
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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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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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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
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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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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 Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
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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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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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