Sydney Schanberg Quotes

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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…
• It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
• We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.
• 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…
• People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.
• I don't judge myself by what someone says.
• The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.
• Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
• The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.
• If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.
• Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.
• 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…
• This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.
• I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.
• I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
• What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary…
• As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.
• I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?
• I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation.
• Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He…

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