Sydney Schanberg Quotes

United States, Journalist
January 17, 1934 – July, 9, 2016.

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. Schanberg was played by Sam Waterston in the 1984 film The Killing Fields based on the experiences of Schanberg and the Cambodian journalist Dith Pran in Cambodia.

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

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- Come
- Insult
- Change Costs

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

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- School
- Society
- Debate
If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

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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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- Notes
- Criticize
- Staff
I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation.

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- Pressure
- Move
- Stabilize
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

Sydney Schanberg

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

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