This week Andrea Mitchell celebrates her 50th year as a newscaster. What is the secret of her personal success?
Andrea Mitchell anchors The Andrea Mitchell Report daily on MSNBC. She also holds the title of Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent. These impressive achievements barely convey the scope and depth of this courageous individual’s effect on the media world. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, Mitchell was hired as a reporter at KYW radio in Philadelphia. Then she moved to the nation’s capitol to become a CBS correspondent and within a few years was working for NBC covering the White House. This women is close to becoming a television news legend. Overtime she has covered six US presidents. As a foreign policy expert, she has traveled to every capitol of the world interviewing leaders and tyrants alike.
“I couldn’t even get a job at first
because they weren’t hiring women
in the newsroom. I’ve seen this change
from the end of the Sixties through the
Seventies, and there was spurt of “let’s
hire women,” and then people kind of
backed off from that. For a long time the
most important beats were always
occupied in Washington by men. There
were very few women on the campaign
trail. Breakthroughs there were with
Cokie Roberts and Judy Woodruff
and a lot of my print colleagues, Susan
Page, Ruth Marcus. It was very lonely at
first but we always banded together.”
All in Mitchell’s life has not been as she might have preferred in every detail but she has certainly prevailed. In 2011 she revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Fortunately the condition was caught early and treated. Earlier in 2004 Mitchell faced more discouragement. She was considered along with Gwen Ifill from PBS as the replacement host of Meet the Press, but was passed over for Chuck Todd. Had Mitchell been selected for the spot, there is no doubt, she would have excelled in conveying political policy and putting evasive guests on the spot.
   #44 WED SCO 10/30/1946 Andrea Mitchell |
Andrea Mitchell was born on a Wednesday in Scorpio. Having Mercury as her Day Ray makes her alert to all the changes going on around her and she is quick to learn how systems work. As a news reporter, she presents her messages in a clear and viable manner. With a Scorpio Sun Sign her personality is deep and subtle. She has the ability to investigate matters and can understand the range of human emotions without getting caught up in them herself.
Mitchell’s secret weapon is her Dayology Signature. She may or may not be aware of her #44 WED SCO nature but she makes good use of its resourcefulness. Early on she discovered that world affairs fascinated her. She has worked harder than most in her field and persisted in staying on top. And she isn’t one of those Scorpios who allowed their reputations to be ruined to satisfy their desires or get ahead.
As an example of the positive Scorpio, Mitchell believes that life must be faced as it is and then transformed by heroic acts. Not only does she push others to tell the truth, she apologizes for her own oversights and transgressions. It’s true she is getting on in years, but we hear nothing as to retirement. Today a mature and talented woman can direct her own destiny, and that is exactly what Andrea Mitchell is doing.
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