Sydney Schanberg quotes
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“We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”
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“I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.”
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“This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.”
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“My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.”
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“Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.”
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“If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.”
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“The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.”
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“Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.”
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“The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.”
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“I don't judge myself by what someone says.”
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“People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.”
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“You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.”
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“It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.”
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“Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.”
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“I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.”
-- Sydney Schanberg
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