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Television is intensely personal.
Being a novelty had its advantages.
I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.
Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.
Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.
News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.
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.
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?