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Bob Schaffer

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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Boss Decision Thinking
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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Football Nobody Police Reporter Show
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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Answers Literature Trying
I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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Jobs Literature Thinking
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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Games People Smart
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
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Kindness Peaceful Prayer
The revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government…
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Color Government Tired
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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Important People Thinking
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
They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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Life Literature Mean
I used to be a print reporter.
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Literature Print Used
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
It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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Challenges Literature Person
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
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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Mean Perspective Trying
Government is just spending too much money.
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Government Spending

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