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 Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that`s where I wanted to be. 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.
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I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby.
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As the youngest, I wanted to be my father`s son and perpetuate the family name.
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But essentially, it will be a news oriented program. It will be a news program with spinoffs of the news of the day, not unlike what you do, Larry.
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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.
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You know, I like to be competitive. I mean, it`s all part of the game. But, yes, sure, I`d rather not have it. I`ll go with Ted Turner on that.
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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.
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Just about any story we think about doing, whether we`ve read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.
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We decided that you have to let the other person do whatever he or she loves, and not intrude on that. You don`t have to do everything together.
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You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity.
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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.
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I don`t know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.
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All I want to be sure of is that viewers understood it was a giant self-parody. If anyone took it seriously, they really need to get a life.
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For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn`t quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I`m not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.
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For the most part, my husband is home in the evening and maybe there is something that I can do to figure out how I can balance all of this.
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I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.
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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.
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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.
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I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue.
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We`re going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they`ll get the latest news, but they`ll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well.
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But, you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That`s the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it`s the best thing for me to do.
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I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!
Trivia
She received teaching fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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She was the first journalist to interview basketball legend Magic Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. She was also the first to interview congressman Gary Condit after his intern Chandra Levy disappeared.
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Her Chinese name, given to her by her parents, can be translated as "Princess Ivory".
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Youngest of 10, 5 of whom died in China. She has 4 older living sisters - one is Josephine Chen.
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Met her future husband, Maury Povich, in 1968 at the local TV station in Washington, D.C. (WTTN), where she was a secretary and he was an anchorman.
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Attended the University of Maryland, where she first majored in Biology and then switched to Journalism.
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The only person in history (male or female) to have served as a substitute anchor for all three network nightly newscasts (NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News and ABC World News Tonight); as well as all three network morning newscasts (Today, CBS This Morning and Good Morning America)
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Daughter-in-law of Shirley Povich.
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Attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring Maryland
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Newscaster
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Son, Matthew Jay Povich, adopted in 1995
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