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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

Bob Schaffer

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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Christmas Football Thanksgiving
I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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Jobs Literature Thinking
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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Complicated Government Way
I used to be a print reporter.
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Literature Print Used
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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Competition Guests Stories
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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Ago Football Games Long
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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Administration Parent Problem Trouble
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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Fun Mind People
Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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Betting Doubt Himself
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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Jobs News People
It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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Government Impossible Unlikely
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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Agency News Ukraine
Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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Accounts Newspapers Persons
I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
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Confidence Mistakes Self Way
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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Friday Holiday Weekend
Government is just spending too much money.
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Government Spending

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