My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
BOB SCHAFFERMitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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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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I used to be a print reporter.
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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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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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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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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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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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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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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 would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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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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They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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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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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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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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