When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
From Jessica Savitch
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.
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
Television is intensely personal.
Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
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