The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd

[erronis]

11. Quite a few top-rated newspeople without degrees

https://www.cnn.com/2011/12/30/opinion/schmitz-college/index.html

Brian Williams attended three schools and completed 18 undergraduate credits before working his way to NBC News anchor. Peter Jennings, Walter Cronkite and John Chancellor were also anchors without degrees. And many reporters and columnists never completed college, including Nina Totenberg of NPR, Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post and former New York Times columnist and wordsmith William Safire.

I'm sure you were tongue-in-cheek since many of the most successful people didn't use a degree to achieve their success.

Sure, attendance at a good school and networking are helpful. So are rich parents. So is having the right "package" (male, white, good-looking, tall, etc.).

I've done pretty damn well for 60+ years of working/earning without even a high-school diploma. Wish I had done a lot more but that's life.