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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
Jessica Savitch
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Jessica Savitch
Age: 36 †
Born: 1947
Born: February 1
Died: 1983
Died: October 23
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San Diego
California
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
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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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The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.
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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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Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
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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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It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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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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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
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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 bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
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Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
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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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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat if there is a place to sit, sit if there is a restroom, go.
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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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