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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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The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
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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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Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
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When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
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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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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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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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Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.
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In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
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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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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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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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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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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
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