

Still, “22 and stupid,” Jackie said she worked her way into some news assignments, proving she could compete with the big boys. (I won’t do that here, because he’s still around and I try to stay out of court.) Anyway, this guy with the blow-dried hair and the deep voice would leer and wink and say inappropriate things. “I worked with the real life Anchorman,” she told me, even naming his name. Her first TV job was in Little Rock, Arkansas where she pleaded for an office job, just to get a foot in the door. Twenty-two years old, and barely out of the University of Georgia, the Atlanta native had grown up watching TV news reporters, 95 percent of them male, and decided she was going to be one.


But this much I know: in 1973, Miss Jackie Schulten rocked their world.
