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Sydney Schanberg [1934-0] American
Rank: 103
Journalist


Sydney Hillel Schanberg was an American journalist who was best known for his coverage of the war in Cambodia. He was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two George Polk awards, two Overseas Press Club awards, and the Sigma Delta Chi prize for distinguished journalism. 

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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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If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.
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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 just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
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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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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 and that he wanted hard news. Sad
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This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.
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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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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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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 gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to.
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I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation.
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I don't judge myself by what someone says.
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As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.
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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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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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People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.
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Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice.
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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.
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I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?
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Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
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