A Quote by Bob Schieffer
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.
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I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and some roots, and so then it just started to have tentacles that just spread out in all these places, and already a vicious project became pretty overwhelming in scope, and so it was a lot of diligent, day-to-day fighting with the footage, trying to get it down to a place where it was manageable and emotional.
These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.
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