Words matter. These are the best Jessica Savitch Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.
Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
To get it first is important – but more important is to get it right.
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
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.
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
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.
How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
Mistakes are not always the result of someone’s ineptitude.
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
Walking into a room filled with people you don’t know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.
Being a novelty had its advantages.
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they’re gang wars and racial riots.
Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
