 The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus. |
| My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30. |
| What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death? |
| Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective. |
| When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show. |
| 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. |
| The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best. |
| In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter. |
| Men still control the news, both on and off camera. |
| The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months. |
| You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone. |
| The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself. |
| The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer. |
| News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows. |
| I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes. |
| 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? |
| For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work. |
| I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked? |
| Being a novelty had its advantages. |
