Connie Chung
Connie Chung
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich, known as Connie Chung, is an American journalist. She has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow and U.S. Representative Gary Condit, whom Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance, and basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. In 1995 she was removed as CBS Evening News co-anchor after...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth20 August 1946
CountryUnited States of America
Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'.
I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.
This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.
I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.
I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors
I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there
Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work
I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. Thats the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.
Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false
This should have happened in the 20th century, not the 21st century. But the fact that it did happen today is a watershed moment for women in television news.
They just said Hispanic male mowing a lawn, and so I didn't connect that with my brother at all,
I'm delighted to be part of an organization of dedicated journalists whose sole mission is to report the news every minute of every hour every day,
He was always calm, clear and concise. If you told him the world was coming to an end, he would still report it factually.
I don't know what all of us can do to continue to press for more women, more minorities, but it's just something that we all have to work on.