Tag: Bob Schieffer
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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.
Bob Schieffer
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I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
Bob Schieffer
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At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They’re all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they’re all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That’s a formula for getting news.
Bob Schieffer
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I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I’m not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.
Bob Schieffer
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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.
Bob Schieffer
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I had – all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn’t have much television in those days.
Bob Schieffer
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Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
Bob Schieffer
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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
Bob Schieffer
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In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.
Bob Schieffer
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The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
Bob Schieffer