“Can you hey treat me like the other male reporters?”
“Oof,” says an exasperated Chung.
“I remember that, Jane.
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He looks at me and says, ‘You look so pretty.’
And I’m thinking to myself, ‘What?’
I’m not a lollipop.
I’m not an ice cream cone.
Can you yo treat me like the other male reporters?”
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“Did he expect me to smile and thank him?”
Chung writes of Mitchell.
“I was there to do my job and proceeded with my questions.
Same with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
As I approached him with my microphone in hand, he’d flirt.
There was little I could do or say to avoid those creepy old men.”
“It was a tricky line to walk, making sure I was never called the B-word.”
“I think they were really taken aback that I had adopted their persona.
For more from Chung, tune into her interview with Pauley on Sunday.
