Jessica Savitch Quotes

• Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

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• Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

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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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• Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

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• Women didn’t want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands’ diverted attention.

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• When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

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• When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

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• When for so long you can’t get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

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• What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man’s face right after he has learned of his wife’s death?

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• Walking into a room filled with people you don’t know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

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• To get it first is important – but more important is to get it right.

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• The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

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• The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

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• The news anchor is exactly that – an anchor, a center, a focus.

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• The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

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• The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

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• The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can’t grow old in television news.

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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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• 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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• The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.

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Jessica Savitch (58)

Birth:	1st February, 1947
Death:	23rd October, 1983
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, News Presenter

About

Jessica Beth Savitch was born in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an American newscaster and TV journalist, best known for being the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily presenter of NBC News updates during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She also hosted PBS's public affairs documentary program Frontline from its January 1983 debut until her death in an automobile accident later that year. She graduated from Ithaca College in 1968. In 1979, she received an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Ithaca College, her alma mater. She was elected to the college's Board of Trustees in 1980. The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia posthumously inducted Savitch into their Hall of Fame in 2006. She is the author of book, entitled Anchorwoman (memoir).

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• 1977 - Nunnally Johnson
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