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To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

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Jessica Savitch
Age: 36 †
Born: 1947
Born: February 1
Died: 1983
Died: October 23
Correspondent
Journalist
News Presenter
San Diego
California
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Jessica Beth Savitch
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My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
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Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
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News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
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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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The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
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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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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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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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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
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The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
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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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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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