onnie Chung is the prototype and pioneer who inspired the legions of Asian female journalists on American TV. The burden of being the first was a heavy one, and she didn't always respond graciously to countless demands on her time. By the time she reached national prominence as an NBC correspondent and substitute anchor in the late 1980s, she was both idolized for her prominence and reviled for her rejection of the "Asian American" label. Similar ambivalence about her often abrasive personal and journalistic style may have underlain the 1995 loss of her CBS Evening News co-anchor spot.
onnie Chung is the prototype and pioneer who inspired the legions of Asian female journalists on American TV. The burden of being the first was a heavy one, and she didn't always respond graciously to countless demands on her time. By the time she reached national prominence as an NBC correspondent and substitute anchor in the late 1980s, she was both idolized for her prominence and reviled for her rejection of the "Asian American" label. Similar ambivalence about her often abrasive personal and journalistic style may have underlain the 1995 loss of her CBS Evening News co-anchor spot.
