Resumo de Reporting Live

One of the most famous female journalists currently working in TV news
in the United States today is Lesley Stahl. Now a correspondent
for CBS' "Sixty Minutes," Stahl has held a number of other assignments
during her career at CBS News. Before joining "Sixty Minutes,"
she hosted CBS' Sunday talk show "Face the Nation." Before that
she reported from the White House for the network.

In her autobiography, REPORTING LIVE, she gives a lively account of how
she came to work for CBS in the early 1970s. In her engaging and
forthright manner, she also speaks of her years before she became a
news reporter. As she describes various aspects of her life, it
becomes quite evident that the person exerting the most influence over
her thoughts and actions in her personal life was her mother.
It's noteworthy, too, that Stahl doesn't refer to her mother as either
"Mom," or "Mother," or some other such term of endearment.
Rather, she calls her by her first name, "Dolly." Throughout the
book, she describes how Dolly is constantly at the ready, offering
commentary (and often criticism) about what Stahl is doing, either
personally or professionally.

In her professional life, Stahl covered some major news stories.
Perhaps one of the biggest was Watergate. As she recounts the
trials and tribulations she encountered while working on that story,
she paints a far from appealing portrait of Daniel Schorr (another CBS
reporter at that time). However, when she finally had a big
showdown with Schorr, it proved to be a decisive moment in her
professional career and signaled that she was coming into her own as a
full-fledged CBS news correspondent.

While Stahl's telling of her life story does focus much attention on
the various assignments she held and stories she covered, it also
includes details about her personal life which some may find
surprising. For example, she's very open about the problems her
husband had fighting depression. She notes how her colleague,
Mike Wallace (who suffers from depression himself) effectively
compelled her to insist that her husband get treatment for his
depression.

All in all, Stahl's autobiography does a fine job of presenting a
comprehensive overview of her life, both personally and
professionally. Anyone interested in pursuing a career in
journalism would benefit from reading it.

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