Time & Perspective Quote by Jessica Savitch

A newsroom kind of humility lives inside this line: the knowledge that hype is always louder than reality, and reality always gets the last word. Savitch is talking about “glamour” the way journalists learn to talk about a good story - as something seductive, portable, and slightly fraudulent. “My own press” isn’t just other people praising her; it’s the intoxicating feedback loop of visibility, credibility, and ego that media culture manufactures. She’s naming the private risk behind a very public job: you start to confuse the role (the authoritative anchor, the rising star) with the person.

The sentence is built like a small moral boomerang. “Every time” and “inevitably” make arrogance feel less like a character flaw than a recurring weather pattern. You can manage it, maybe, but you can’t abolish it. Then comes the saving mechanism: “some incident.” She leaves it vague on purpose, which makes the quote more cutting. The specifics don’t matter because the lesson is structural: the world reliably punctures self-mythology. In journalism, that “incident” could be as banal as a bad segment or as brutal as a personal crisis; either way, the medium’s attention moves on, and the mirror cracks.

Context matters with Savitch. As one of the few women to break through in high-profile broadcast news, she was both celebrated and scrutinized. The line reads as self-defense against celebrity creep - and as a sober acknowledgement that the job rewards performance even as it demands credibility. It’s a reminder that the press can build you a pedestal quickly, and just as quickly provide the trapdoor.