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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
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
Jessica Beth Savitch
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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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Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
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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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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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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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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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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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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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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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To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
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My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
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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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