In this piercing look into the grit and the glamour of
television news, award-winning journalist Liz Trotta traces her
career from the early days of broadcast news to the slick
superficiality of today. The first female television
correspondent in Vietnam, Trotta tells the searing truth about
being a woman in a male-dominated industry and recounts many of
her most fascinating stories, from the scandal of Chappaquiddick
to the campaign trail of George Bush. Filled with candid, often
stinging assessments of the movers and shakers in the industry,
Fighting for Air is the story of an uncompromising woman and of
television news coming of age--told from the trenches.
"Trotta bears powerful and eloquent witness to the tortured state
of modern-day TV news."--Columbia Journalism Review
"Well drawn, exciting, and biting."--Kirkus Reviews
"An outstanding book, intelligent, engaging, brutally
frank."--Washington Times
