Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones. — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder. — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Recorded engine sounds, however, are a deliberate deception. They're like going to a concert and listening to a recording. On the other hand, I… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism.… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
