Jessica Savitch quotes - page 2

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. (Jessica Savitch)
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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Television is intensely personal.
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The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.
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What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
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When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
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The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
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My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl. (Jessica Savitch)
When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.
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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
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You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
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In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
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In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
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The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
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Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
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The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
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Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
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When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it. (Jessica Savitch)
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
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I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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