#news

The best thing about the Congress is that it is the last place where you can have face-to-face interviews and interaction with the newsmakers themselves. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#best #congress #face-to-face #interaction #interviews

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

— Bob Schieffer

#come #i #job #journalism #newsmakers

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

#days #everybody #grow #grow up #had

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

#days #get #go #layers #many

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer. ↗

— 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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What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news. ↗

— Ron Schiller

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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#bad #bad news #bench #ideological #interpret

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news. ↗

— David Sedaris

#big news #exaggerates #get #how #humorist