Sydney Schanberg Quotes

• We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Believe, Government, Forever

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• If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Believe, Journalism, Comeback

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• I don't judge myself by what someone says.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Judging

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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.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Distance, Leader, Demise

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• I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Believe, Insults You, 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.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Voice, Village, Way

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• Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Years, Followers, Paranoia

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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.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Jobs, Organization, Covering

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• This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

  Sydney Schanberg

  School, Boots, Littles

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• Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Thinking, Religion, Journalism

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• The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Voice, Alternatives, Roles

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• People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

  Sydney Schanberg

  New York, Issues, People

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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.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Shadow, May, Easy

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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.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Goodbye, Farewell, Mean

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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

  Media, America, Recognition

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