#or

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

— Jessica Savitch

#get #important #more #right

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

— Jessica Savitch

#controlled #entertainment #events #like #mapped

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

— Jessica Savitch

#been #form #good #grasp #managers

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

— Jessica Savitch

#center #exactly #focus #news

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

— Jessica Savitch

#anchored #first #had #i #never

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#her #humored #i #in the beginning #me

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#goal #goals #moratorium #place

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

— Jessica Savitch

#how #matter #message #much #news

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#collectively #enterprise #free #free enterprise #free enterprise system

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

— Jessica Savitch

#covered #debate #dragged #event #i