Jessica Savitch Literature Quotations

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

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.

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.