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Bob Schieffer
February 25, 1937 -
Nationality: American
Category: Journalist
Subcategory: American Journalist

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.

   

And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.

   

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

   

It's getting the right person that's the challenge.

   

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.

   

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.

   

But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

   

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

   

I used to be a print reporter.

   

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.

   

We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.

   

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

   

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.

   

For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.

   

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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