Tag: Bob Schieffer
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I’ve basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.
Bob Schieffer
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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
Bob Schieffer
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I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I’ve covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that’s what this book started out to be.
Bob Schieffer
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They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
Bob Schieffer
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I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
Bob Schieffer
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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.
Bob Schieffer
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And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience – I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
Bob Schieffer
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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.
Bob Schieffer
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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.
Bob Schieffer
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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.
Bob Schieffer