Quote by Bob Schieffer

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.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I wo

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In this quote, the speaker reflects on their lifelong passion for becoming a reporter. Due to the era in which they grew up, the primary medium for news consumption was newspapers rather than television. This explains why people who knew the speaker believed they would naturally gravitate towards a career as a newspaper reporter. The quote highlights the speaker's personal background and their association of their aspirations with the dominant form of media at the time.

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