Dan Rather and Connie Chung share the podium at a news conference in New York, May 17, 1993 where it was announced Chung will join Rather as co-anchor of the 'CBS Evening News.' Chung will take up her new duties on June 1.
Journalist Connie Chung wanted to 'gang up on' male anchors with Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer | CBC Radio LoadedIn her new book, Connie: A Memoir, legendary TV anchor Connie Chung recalls a culture of sexism in the news industry and says she was “pretty foolish” thinking she could team up with her fellow women colleagues.
But Chung's reflections also reveal the sexism that she and other female colleagues faced as they blazed a trail in television journalism. Nonetheless, there I was and I was just over the moon … I was happy as a clam, just really thrilled that I had gotten there to a position that I never thought I would really get to.
I think all across Canada and probably all across the United States, there are hour-long programs that have co-anchors. But a half-hour program to share is difficult. And I think he — my co-anchor, Dan Rather — didn't want to share any part of it. Yes. And Piya, I wanted to say that there's a disease that the anchormen contract. It's called big-shot-itis. They think that they are masters of the universe and that everybody knows their name, but they don't. And they are engaged in self-aggrandizing behaviour, and they can't stop talking. When we're on the air, they hog.
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