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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
Correspondent
Journalist
News Presenter
San Diego
California
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Jessica Beth Savitch
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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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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
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My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
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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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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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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
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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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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
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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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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
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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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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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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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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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