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John Pomfret Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated May 2024
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Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.
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Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.
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When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
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When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.
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The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
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The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.
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The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
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Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
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Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.
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One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.
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My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
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In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
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I've been shot at on numerous occasions.
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I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.
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I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
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I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China.
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I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.
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I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests.
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I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.
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I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.
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