Bob Woodruff
Bob Woodruff
Robert "Bob" Warren Woodruffis an American television journalist. His career in journalism dates back to 1989, and he is widely known for succeeding Peter Jennings as the co-anchor of ABC News's weekday news broadcast, World News Tonight, in December 2005. In January 2006, Woodruff was critically wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq...
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth18 August 1961
CityBloomfield Hills, MI
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We started out with a package, ... Now we're down to 25 percent of our employees participating in that package. I just cannot get comfortable with 25 percent of the employees helping us with our budget problems. I like a package where everyone can contribute.
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When you walk down that corridor, you see people with a lot of fear in their eyes.
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I think the viewers demand it in many ways. The model of the presenter, I think, is gone. I think the model now is anchor-reporter, and I think you're going to see a lot more of that. As a viewer, I like to see that.
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I think we suffered a little bit in New Orleans from the 'boy who cries wolf' syndrome,
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I think back to the tsunami, and I remember being so astonished, 2 1/2 weeks after it hit, to be standing in the capital of Indonesia and see a dead body on the ground. I never thought, never in a million years, that I would find something like that in the United States. But 10 days afterward in New Orleans, one of the great cities in America, and there were dead bodies on the ground. It's tough to have that happen in your own country.
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When I realized there was a job that existed in this world where I could be in the middle of huge world events and actually get paid for it, it was an epiphany for me.
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It's really good for the reporters in the field, too, to know that when they do all this work and sometimes risk their lives to do it, there's a place that an audience can find it.
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It wasn't a decision that we made based on anything other than the fact that we didn't have a better idea (for economic development efforts) and we figured with new people coming in it would have been a good thing for them to look at,
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It's nice to be feeling more like myself again.
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Today, Mr. Bennett told us his comments were meant as hypothetical. He says that he was really trying to demonstrate the limitation of one argument by showing the absurdity of another.
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What people have always valued (are) anchors who have been out there. I've never dug up a story on a pedestal.
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What's good for the viewers is good for us personally. One of the fears that Peter expressed to me over the years was that once you get to this chair, once you get to this position, you're not able to go out to the big stories and the things you've always loved your whole life as a journalist to do.
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I've never actually dug up any news story on a pedestal before. I don't understand the value of being on a pedestal.