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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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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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Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
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It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
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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 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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Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
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