歡迎多多批評指正.
About six months after my disastrous morning cut-in debut, I had started working at NBC as a Pentagon correspondent. During Christmas, management was desperate to find someone to fill in for Garrick Utley on the Saturday Nightly News. They asked me. Having practiced over and over with a prompter, I got through the broadcast without hyperventilating. When I saw my former news director in the hallway of the building that NBC shared with WRC, I reminded him about telling me to go to a really, really, really small market somewhere to read the cut-ins. “Well,” I said teasingly, “ is the entire nation a small enough market for you?” He hates that story. But really, he who shall not be named deserves only this: Thank you. To paraphrase Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets, he made me want to be a better broadcaster. And I did get better. (Thank God).
