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Exclusive: How Barbara Walters broke the rules and changed the world for women and TV
Adapted from "The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters" by Susan Page. (464 pp.
Simon and Schuster, April 23)
She had been warned.
Barbara Walters had finally won the anchor’s chair in 1976, the prize she had long sought and one that NBC News had refused to give her. ABC, then the third-ranking network with little to lose, offered her the job of co-anchoring the nightly news with Harry Reasoner and hosting four annual specials for the then-breathtaking salary of a million dollars a year.
She was the first newswoman − the first newsperson, in fact − to get such an astronomical sum.
She achieved that distinction by shrewdly playing each network against the other.
Barbara walters biography book
But her price came with its own price. No one would ever let her forget it.
“Barbara Walters: Million-Dollar Baby?” The Miami Herald asked in a headline trumpeted across all six columns at the top of page 1. “A Millio