'She asked the questions most of us are curious about but seldom dare to ask. She asked and she made history.'
not the kind of ‘share everything with’ friend, but a friendship based on the recognition that we had faced similar challenges and learned along the way the importance of showing up for other women.
I wasn’t fully aware of the challenges she faced in getting to that place of prominence in an industry dominated by white men at the time, but those backstage network battles are now a part of television history.program in the early 1970s, her co-host, Frank McGee, persuaded the network to mandate that he ask the first three questions of any guest in the studio, because he was “worried that viewers might assume that he and Ms. Walters were of equal stature.
Yes, here I was telling a woman who had been told she would never make it on air because of the way she pronounced ‘R’s’ that I had an ‘accent challenge.’ I’m sure she ‘got’ the irony of my comment, but she didn’t acknowledge it and just said something like, ”don’t listen to anyone who gives you the reasons you will fail. Just prove them wrong!”—and with that, she left.
These were the days when everyone’s advice was that women must ‘protect their turf’ and not become friends or allies, but Barbara Walters had already proven to be an ally, if not a friend yet.
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