Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
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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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I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.
- Sydney Schanberg Quote

I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation.
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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 Quote

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.
- Sydney Schanberg Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Sydney Schanberg Quote

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.
- Sydney Schanberg Quote

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 Quote

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.
- Sydney Schanberg Quote

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.
- Sydney Schanberg Quote

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.
- Sydney Schanberg Quote

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.
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