American - Journalist | February 25, 1937 -
I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.
Bob Schieffer
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Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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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.
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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.
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They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
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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.
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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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People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.
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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.
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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.
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American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
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