Quotes by Jessica Savitch

About Jessica Savitch:

Jessica Beth Savitch was an American television broadcaster and news reporter, host of PBS's Frontline and New York weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News during the short-lived Roger Mudd/Tom Brokaw era.
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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.

Jessica Savitch

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

Jessica Savitch

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

Jessica Savitch

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

Jessica Savitch

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

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

Jessica Savitch

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

Jessica Savitch

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

Jessica Savitch

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

Jessica Savitch

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

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Jessica Savitch

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

Jessica Savitch

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

Jessica Savitch

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

Jessica Savitch

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

Jessica Savitch

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

Jessica Savitch

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

Jessica Savitch

The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.

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

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One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

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Author Bio

  • NameJessica Savitch
  • DescriptionAmerican TV news reporter
  • BornFebruary 1, 1947
  • DiedOctober 23, 1983
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist