A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
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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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Being a novelty had its advantages.
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By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
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For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
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How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
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I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
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I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
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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?
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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.
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It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
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Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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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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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
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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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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
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No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
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Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
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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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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
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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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The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
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The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
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The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
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The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.
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The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
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To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
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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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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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When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
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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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Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
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