Almost Golden: Jessica Savitch and the Selling of Television News

In 1979 Newsweek dubbed her the Golden Girl. Blond beautiful immensely popular with the public Jessica Savitch had it all. A network anchor at thirty-one sha had made it to the top in a male-dominated world of big stars big money and super-egos. But behind the scenes was another story - a woman desperately chasing her dream through a private nightmare of drugs depression and disastrous romances and spiraling ever downward - sad victim of her own relentless ambition and the fast and fickle industry that created her.