 Would Sandra consistently consider herself a skilled journalist?
Silently, so as not to shock anyone with illusions about well dressed young women, Sandra Lea Grayling cursed the day she had persuaded the Chicago Space Mirror that there would be all sorts of human interest stories to be picked up at the first international grandmaster chess tournament in which an electronic computing machine was entered. Her last assignment had been to interview the pilot pair riding the first American manned circum-lunar satellite—and the five alternate pairs who hadn't made the flight. Sandra's chief difficulty was that she knew absolutely nothing about the game of chess—a point that she had slid over in conferring with the powers at the Space Mirror , but that now had begun to weigh on her.
 No, she has her doubts that her skills are not what makes her successful at interviewing people.
 Yes, and the way she was able to easily journal about the chess competition shows her competency.  No, because she usually knows very little about what she will be journaling about.  No, she has her doubts that her skills are not what makes her successful at interviewing people.  Yes, because she considers herself a very experienced talker.