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The Government's View Is That The Best Time To Announce Bad News, News That It Doesn't Want The Public To Dwell On Is Late On A Friday, When It Will Wind Up In The Saturday Papers, Which If You Were Readers, Then The Week Day Editions. A Holiday Weekend Is Even Better.

Whether Or Not The President Is Sleeping Well Won't Be A Factor In His Re-election. That Will Depend On What He Does While He Is Awake.

A Police Reporter Walks Into The Worst Moment In Someone's Life On Every Single Story That He Covers. It's Not Like Being A Sports Reporter. That's A Great Job And All That And Takes Certain Skills. But, You Know, They're Glad To See You When You Show Up To Cover The Football Game. Nobody Is Ever Glad To See A Police Reporter When He Shows Up.

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.

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.