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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
Jessica Savitch
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Jessica Savitch
Age: 36 †
Born: 1947
Born: February 1
Died: 1983
Died: October 23
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Journalist
News Presenter
San Diego
California
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Jessica Beth Savitch
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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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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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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
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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 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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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
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It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
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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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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
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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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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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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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Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
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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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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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