Words matter. These are the best Katy Tur Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My parents got ahead in the news business with wits, guts, and a creative interpretation of ‘fair game.’ They leased their first helicopter in 1985, when KTLA news crews were on strike. Maybe the crews had good grievances, maybe not. Either way, my parents ignored the strike and went to work.
A traditional presidential campaign has a media bus with the candidate’s name on it and an itinerary days in advance. Trump has a plane with his name on it (that we aren’t invited on) and an itinerary that often mutates daily, along with his talking points.
It’s a truth of beat reporting: The bigger your subject gets, the bigger you get.
I was on the campaign trail, covering Donald Trump for two years – and it’s really hard to do anything for yourself with a schedule like that. I didn’t have time to answer text messages from my friends or go to the gym, let alone get my nails done.
Let me clarify a few things about TV news on the national level at NBC and MSNBC. We write our own stories. There is no teleprompter for reporters. No traveling makeup artists or stylists. And there is very little sleep.
You don’t go after veterans in this country. If there’s one thing that’s sacrosanct, it is the American military veteran.
Trump is a room-reader. He’ll slow down a line, rephrase a point, work in a pause, and ride the energy of his audience wherever it takes him.
I’m a big believer in being the same person on and off TV.
I think I fundamentally understand the way Trump thinks.
For one of my first TV jobs, I was required to cut my hair, dress a certain way, and wear a certain amount of makeup. I was even told to have my hair cut based on a picture in a magazine. I realized that until I complied, I wasn’t going to get any airtime.
I think Trump is someone who appreciates and connects with people who hold their own and are strong individuals. I think he can smell weakness, and if you show him weakness, he exploits it, and he doesn’t respect you.
I’ve always been an outsider. I think, being in the White House press corps, it’s difficult to do the sort of journalism that I would want to do.
If you’re not competitive, if you’re not out to make a mark, you shouldn’t be in the news business.
I’ve started baking. Having my hands deep in dough keeps them away from my phone.
I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.
Donald Trump has advocated violence – I saw him do it several times on the campaign trail.
Back in 2006, when I started in the industry, there was a very old-school beauty mentality. We had to take headshots, and the makeup artists put on so much makeup – I swear I looked like a 48-year-old woman, and I was 22.
It’s times of relative calm and ease that I start to wind myself up.
I’m a natural compartmentalizer.
The expat life was a good one: There was my French boyfriend. My bright two-bedroom flat in Islington. My wine at lunch. I had a ‘go bag’ packed with loose linens and mosquito repellent – I was ready to be flung to the outer edges of the world at a moment’s notice. It was all intrigue and adventure.
My mom likes to say I’ve been covering news since the day I was born – longer if you count my time in utero.
I don’t hold a lot to the vest. I’m a bit of an open book, as anyone who knows me would contest. Confess? Attest? There’s the word I’m looking for!
