Today the host of ORA TV’s Newsbreaker, and now calling Larry King her boss, Melissa McCarty worked her way up through the trenches of live television news. But she was also running away from her past, one of growing up in the roughest of neighborhoods, watching so many she knew – including her brother – succumb to drugs, gangs, and violence. It was a past that forced her to be tough and streetwise, traits that in her career as a popular television newscaster, would end up working against her. Every tragic story she covered was a grim reminder of where she’d been. But the practiced and restrained emotion given to the camera became her protective armor even in her private life where she was unable to let her guard down – a demeanor that damaged both her personal and professional relationships. In News Girls Don’t Cry, McCarty confronts the memory – demons of her past, exploring how they hardened her – and how she turned it all around. An inspiring story of overcoming adversity, welcoming second chances, and becoming happy and authentic.
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Summary
This biography by reporter and newscaster Melissa McCarty takes the reader through the struggles of being in the public eye on television and out in the field. Melissa has been in the business for many years and shows what it takes to be a number one anchor person. Some people see reporters as vultures hungry to gnaw at the grizzly details to get a story, while others only want to hear the story as it happens to see if it helps catch the perpetrator. While she was trying to be the best she could be in that competitive business, she was also fighting her own personal family problems and trying not to let them get in the way of her road to success.
Violence-No graphic violence, just mentioned in news stories.