Bob Schieffer > Quotes

“I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.”
― Bob Schieffer, This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV

“Go vote now it will make you feel big and strong”
― Bob Schieffer

“As one former fake news writer told 60 Minutes, if it is in a news-ish format and agrees with preexisting biases, people will believe just about anything.12”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“In many parts of the country outside those metropolitan areas, it’s no longer a question of whether readers are getting biased news, it’s whether they are getting any news—or at least reliable news.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“Dean Owen did what a lot of reporters seem to have forgotten how to do these days, he asked the people who were there that awful day what they saw and how they felt. This is a must-read for anyone who wants a better understanding of what happened on the weekend that America lost its innocence. A terrific read.”
― Bob Schieffer, This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV

“together on solutions to fix them.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“What America needs more than political reform is political courage—candidates and politicians who are not afraid to risk losing the office they hold to accomplish the greater good. The Founders were not concerned about political survival; they worried about being hanged when they signed the Declaration of Independence. Yet they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the cause in which they believed so strongly.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“The scarcest resource in journalism now is attention span.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“But I do wish some of these young reporters had the opportunity I had to work more closely with editors who could help them shape a story and make it better. “They still get edited, but not the way I worked with editors every step of the way on a story—it was the way we all learned the craft in those days. Today we just don’t have that many people.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“Campaign laws are virtually nonexistent. By 1975, thirty-two people from the Nixon era had gone to jail or paid heavy fines for campaign finance law violations. All of the things for which they were convicted are now legal.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“millennials are a median age of twenty-seven. There’s seventy-five to eighty million of us. We are now the biggest group of employees in the workforce. There’s more of us than boomers or gen X. We’re also approaching peak spending years. And so as a foundational part of the economy, millennials are by far the most important group for the next forty years. And so, as a business, that’s the group you want to build your audience around. When you look at Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, all of those—all of those great news companies have a median viewer above sixty years old. That’s median. That means half of them are even older than that. “We plan on growing up with our audience,” Alcheck continued. “The biggest innovation is actually improving the storytelling, improving the journalism. Our audience is maturing, is approaching a new life stage where it’s about getting married and having kids and thinking about the world differently than they’ve been thinking about it for the last decade. And so for us, a big part of what we’re doing is continuing—is a relentless focus on making our journalism better. And I think that’s what’s going to ultimately either keep people or people will leave.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“millennials are a median age of twenty-seven. There’s seventy-five to eighty million of us. We are now the biggest group of employees in the workforce. There’s more of us than boomers or gen X. We’re also approaching peak spending years. And so as a foundational part of the economy, millennials are by far the most important group for the next forty years. And so, as a business, that’s the group you want to build your audience around.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“I have always loved art and am an aspiring painter, and in early years when I was struggling to find a style, a wise teacher told me: “Just pick out an artist you like and copy him. You come to understand how he solved the problems you’re struggling with and your own style will grow out of that in time.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“He had this great curiosity. If there was a car wreck and Walter saw it, it would be like the first car wreck he ever saw in his life.”
― Bob Schieffer

“For all the problems print underwent in 2016, newspapers—where they could be found—still provided information available nowhere else to those who still chose to read them.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“We’re no longer basing our opinions on the same data,” Naughton said. “It used to be that we got our facts from the front pages of our local newspapers or the wire services or the networks. “Maybe we agreed or disagreed with their editorials or opinion pieces, but we accepted what was on the front pages or what Walter Cronkite reported as true and we based our own opinions on that. “Now,” he said, “we’re no longer basing our opinions on the same stuff—some folks get one set of facts from one outlet and other folks get another set of facts from another outlet, no wonder they come to different conclusions.” Naughton’s prescient observation about the changing face of journalism has only intensified in the age of digital streaming and social media.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“Dowd alluded to another factor necessary to understand the digital age: the technology that allows news to travel at warp speed also gives innovators the freedom and the ability to move quickly and make change to embrace new models in order to find an audience. That means we are only at the beginning. We should expect even more change, not less.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“To put it another way, Donald Trump was not having an impact on the culture but simply reflecting a culture that has grown more impolite and vulgar.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“The history of American journalism, then, is a history of change. To survive the change foisted on it by new delivery systems, journalism’s delivery mechanisms must change.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“The state of journalism is a national security issue, if our people don’t have a clear understanding what our problems are and the threats we face, they can’t come together on solutions to fix them.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“Bill Brock, the former Tennessee senator and one-time head of the Republican Party said recently that many Americans choose their favorite channel (or website) not to get just the latest information but “to get the ammo to back up their previously formed opinions.” And it was getting harder to separate opinion from fact.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“Learning on the job and having the backup of experienced editors are luxuries unavailable to many young journalists, and this puts new emphasis on what they need to know as they embark on that first job. It is somewhat akin to pickup sandlot sports. Sure, you can learn the game without a coach, but a coach can help the learning process.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

“While no solutions seem obvious, there is general agreement throughout the industry that if local newspapers go away and some entity does not rise to do what we have come to expect of them—that is, keep an eye on local government—we will experience corruption at levels we have never seen.”
― Bob Schieffer, Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News