BOB SCHIEFFER, FACE THE NATION: I have always said the great thing about being a reporter is the adventure, getting to talk to the people who make the news, seeing things with your own eyes that other people see only through eyes and lens of others.
And I have always said, the best training to be a reporter are or anything else is to work the police beat, because every story you cover is the worst moment in someone’s life.
If you can learn to get the right information under those circumstances, you won’t be fazed by the high and mighty and certainly not by on-the-make politicians and spin doctors, which is why I want to add a paragraph or two to the rash of stories lately about cops gone wrong. Read more…