Why Our Current News Media is in the Toilet & How the Legendary Connie Chung Changed Media

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

LEGENDARY Journalist Connie Chung Shattered the Chains of her Cultural Traditions and Navigated the News Waters in a Sea of Men. Now she's opening up about being sexually abused by her doctor as a teenager, her deep desire to be "one of the guys", and why she thinks current news media is in the toilet. She reveals how she conquered the male-dominated realms of journalism and politics, the clever ways she combated sexism and racism in the newsroom, how she managed to keep her emotions in check while delivering impartial news that shaped our world, and her struggles with tying her self worth to her career. Hear about Connie's wild stakeouts during the Watergate scandal, the reason she was forced to cover controversial figures like Tonya Harding & OJ Simpson, and her longtime marriage to daytime talk show host Maury Povich! Connie Chung also breaks down: - Her parents’ arranged marriage at a very early age & the loss of her older siblings - How she broke out of the mindset of the traditional Chinese caste system - Dangers of being seen as a feminist when she began & what feminism mean to her now - Her first big news break - Importance of neutrality & credible fact-checking in the news media - Challenges women in media face today It's no wonder why so many Asian-American parents continue to name their kids after THE Connie Chung! Don’t miss this exclusive look into the life of a trailblazer - TUNE IN to MBB today!

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0:00.0	I was morphing into the man I wanted to be. I felt I had to be. It was so incredibly
0:10.4	male-dominated. I mean I really did literally look around in the newsroom and I saw all men and then the people I was covering in Washington
0:18.8	Were men at the White House the Pentagon at the State Department on Capitol Hill, my gosh, it was filled with men.
0:25.6	They're treating me like I'm a little lotus blossom and I'm not a lotus blossom,
0:30.6	and I'm not going to be treated like a lot of blossom. I think to myself, why can't I just be one of them?
0:37.0	Going to a bar, even in the afternoon, with the guys and trying to drink them under the table with draft beer. I had the worst
0:46.4	potty mouth and they would be shocked. I was going to tell a better dirty joke than they did.
0:53.2	If they were going to throw something sexist or racist at me,
0:56.5	I would do it to them before they did it to me.
0:59.6	I don't see me.
1:00.8	I don't know that I'm a Chinese woman. I'll take on their persona. I'll be bold. I'll be scrappy. I will
1:09.3	command respect the way they do when they walk into a room simply because they are met.
1:16.0	I will take on all of the pages from their playbook and become one of them.
1:22.0	We are so convinced myself that when I... and become one of them.
1:22.6	We are so convinced myself that when I walk past a mirror, I'd go,
1:27.0	just a Chinese woman there.
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