From the conference, it wasn't all about technology, Kimberly Dozier's story of her time spent in Bagdad and other foreign countries and her commitement to journalism and telling the story was so inspiring and put in perspective the role we all share in supporting those who choose to risk much to allow us to an opportunity to see what is happening and make up our own minds. Most of us wake up and get ready for work and worry about the day's todo list and think about what problems and issues lay ahead, not about real land minds and car bombs....
Headline: CBS News'Dozier resolves to make Iraq survival count, Orlando Sentinel, Oct. 7th
CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier describes covering the Iraq war as a thankless assignment, but one she cherishes.
"You get kicked for almost everything you put on the air," she said. "A lot of people tune away from it. But you can't stop covering it. The rest of the world is judging us by what happens in Iraq. Even though we're sick of it and might want to turn away, we can't afford to."
Dozier was honored Saturday with the The Matrix Foundation's Helen Duhamel Achievement Award at the Association for Women in Communications National Conference in Orlando.
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It was wonderful to have the opportunity to hear from Kimberly Dozier. She reminds me of the words from someone whom this organization has also honored-- Eleanor Roosevelt==who said, "You gain stength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Remarkably, at times media heads seem to be more concerned about the clothing female correspondents are wearing --even in the field of battle! These ratings-centered minds seem to forget another bit of wisdom from Eleanor Roosevelt, "A woman is like a tea bag--you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." Just as our founding journalists wanted to impress on the public --women can be effective reporters. So to paraphrase an often quoted male war cry, "Damn the fashion fixators--full speed ahead."
We can be proud that we have female reporters like Kimberly Dozier. Full speed ahead, indeed. Mary Kay Switzr
Mary Kay Switzer
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