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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
Jessica Savitch
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Jessica Savitch
Age: 36 †
Born: 1947
Born: February 1
Died: 1983
Died: October 23
Correspondent
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News Presenter
San Diego
California
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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
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The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.
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Television is intensely personal.
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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
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Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
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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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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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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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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
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The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
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Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
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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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To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
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