But there were other obstacles. She had to prove she was serious. She also wanted to show her father that she could do as good a job as he had done. By 1979 Alicia Patterson had passed on. And certainly there were days in the newsroom, as I am know there are now, when it seemed like everyone wanted to quit.
Newsrooms are like that.
There were other days, though, when we were truly convinced that it was Alicia who had been the real journalist in the family. I'm far from an Alicia Patterson scholar. But that is the beauty of the Internet. I can now link you to much better sources. So, Alicia, wherever you are, thanks for letting me use your spirit as a vehicle for this is surely the future of newspapers.