Katy Tur

Katy Tur @KatyTurNBC

RT @OneSignalPub: “[Rough Draft] is not easy, but it’s so good. I see a movie here.” @GayleKing on @katyturNBC’s new memoir Rough Draft. I… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CBSMornings: .@KatyTurNBC says her father, once part of a breaking news team with her mother, was physically abusive during her childho… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nprfreshair: TODAY: MSNBC anchor & NBC News correspondent @KatyTurNBC. Her new memoir, Rough Draft, is about her early career and unusu… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NicolleDWallace: She upgraded big time! I’m so sorry to miss this. The book is incredible. Xo please go see @KatyTurNBC and @tonydokoup… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MAOHare: @StephanieSimoni @tonydokoupil @KatyTurNBC @CBSMornings really really touched me. Speaks to the real cost of parental estrange… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CBSMornings: .@KatyTurNBC says she began “confronting” the events of her childhood during the pandemic, when her mother sent her emotio… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tonydokoupil: Used to be the guy selling books outside @92ndStreetY events. On Wednesday, thanks to @KatyTurNBC writing a great new mem… — PolitiTweet.org

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@kendallybrown Ack! I see. Thank you. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cmclymer Hi Charlotte. It’s part of memoir. — PolitiTweet.org

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In my book Rough Draft, out Tuesday, much of what I confront is the news environment in part created by my parents, and how we’re still dealing w it, and how after trying to escape it I was confronted by an extreme version of it 30 years later when I was assigned to cover Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not saying any of it to brag. Nor am I endorsing it. But this is how I grew up. It was wild. Sometimes it was very fun. Other times very scary. When I was 22 I moved to NY to run away from it. — PolitiTweet.org

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By the time I was in high school though my parents had lost it all their marriage their careers their reputations. Some say they’re responsible for the downfall of tv news. At least in part. They don’t deny it. — PolitiTweet.org

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They found O.J. Simpson’s white bronco and then carried an exclusive live feed of the police chase for about 20 minutes, and the trinity in TV time, long enough for tens of millions of people to tune in. — PolitiTweet.org

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The first live police chase on TV, which ended when the driver died in a hail of bullets (the ratings beat out a re-run of Matlock). The LA Riots, including the Reginald Denny beating. — PolitiTweet.org

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Over the next decade, after my father learned to fly the helicopter and my mother started taking the pictures, my parents captured some of the most iconic footage of the era. — PolitiTweet.org

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Or perhaps since Dad got a tip about Rock Hudson, who was secretly losing a battle with AIDS, and who returned to Los Angeles in the middle of the night after a failed treatment in Paris. My father shot him leaving a private plane on a stretcher. — PolitiTweet.org

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Or perhaps since capturing the first images— on a remote film set — of a helicopter crash that had killed two children and Vic Morrow, star of the twilight zone movie. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s the video: https://t.co/xxh5lGkhVd — PolitiTweet.org

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It was my father’s biggest payday since lunging into the back of an ambulance carrying Michael Jackson, injured while shooting a Pepsi commercial, but still alert enough to wave at the camera — with a bandaged hand. — PolitiTweet.org

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He’d once rented a yellow submarine to get a shot of Princess Diana, but he’d never seen Madonna flip off a helicopter on her wedding day. He wanted the pictures. Everyone did. — PolitiTweet.org

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Back on the ground, inside my family’s hangar at Santa Monica Airport, as my brother and I played on floor of the office, a stranger knocked on the door. Phil Ramey, aka the King of Paparazzi. — PolitiTweet.org

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Don’t believe me? Here’s the video. https://t.co/bxLMcs71LP — PolitiTweet.org

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And it was Dad who was looking through the lens of his camera when Madonna, furious and fed-up, marched to the edge of the bluff, and offered a very special message: her middle finger. Click, click, click. Dad got the pictures. — PolitiTweet.org

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One of those helicopters — the lowest and the closest —carried my father. — PolitiTweet.org

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THREAD Here is a story for you: In 1985 Madonna married Sean Pean in the backyard of a mansion overlooking the Pacific. It was a perfect day, except for a swarm of news helicopters, making it hard for the couple to hear their own vows. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MonicaLewinsky Did you hate Confederacy of Dunces, too? — PolitiTweet.org

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What books are on your nightstand? https://t.co/FLdxxd2Jm7 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jcheiffetz: We don’t often talk about what it’s like for journalists to report on violent events. @KatyTurNBC on Jan 6th: https://t.co/… — PolitiTweet.org

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This Sunday. Rough Draft out TUESDAY. https://t.co/QP3i2YihvC — PolitiTweet.org