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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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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
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To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
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News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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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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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
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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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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
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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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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
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The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
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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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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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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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