Jessica Savitch Quotes
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Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
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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.
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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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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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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
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A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
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I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
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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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News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
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My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
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The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
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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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The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
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Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
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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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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
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Television is intensely personal.
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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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Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.
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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.