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For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
Jessica Savitch
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Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.
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The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
Jessica Savitch
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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.
Jessica Savitch
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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.
Jessica Savitch
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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
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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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I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
Jessica Savitch
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By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
Jessica Savitch
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