A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.
BOB SCHAFFERI 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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They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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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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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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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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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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But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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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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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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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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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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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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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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