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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

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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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Television is intensely personal.
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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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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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You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
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No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
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