Betty Ford First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer

He saw value here at 20 billion for sure and actually changed his mind because he got so much pushback from Wall Street and others.

And then he actually physically fell, right? When he was going to make the pitch and hurt himself.

He said his instincts were to buy it and he always loves going against naysayers.

I think the biggest change was after the urban uprisings of the 60s when the Kerner Commission, which was a commission that was named by the president, said the media had in many ways contributed to the fact that the urban riots occurred.

And that was because they had not integrated their reporting and the editing staffs. And in many ways they said they were just showing us America only through white eyes.

there's one of the, I mean, just the most harrowing passages where they had a policy of not reporting when black people were murdered. One editor even called those cheap deaths that shouldn't be reported.

So it felt like I was almost part of the freedom movement by going and becoming the first African-American woman at The Washington Post.

It was very difficult when the president started talking about fake news. It was very difficult because those of us who came up in the legacy media, we knew about all of the issues of ethics that we had to adhere to in order to be hired by the Washington Post and in order to work there.

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