Sydney Schanberg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Believe #People #Want
This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.
-- Sydney Schanberg

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

#Years #Followers #Paranoia
If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.
-- Sydney Schanberg

#Believe #Insult #Journalism
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 #News
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
-- Sydney Schanberg

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

#Voice #Roles #Paper
I don't judge myself by what someone says.
-- Sydney Schanberg

#Judging
People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.
-- Sydney Schanberg

#New York #Issues #People
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 #News #Village
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
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 #Mean #Brooklyn
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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