Zitat des Tages von Jessica Savitch:
Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
Television is intensely personal.
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.
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.
When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
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?
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
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.
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
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.
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.
To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
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.
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.