John Pomfret
John Pomfret
John Pomfretwas an English poet and clergyman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
overseas people
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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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 grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.
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My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
covering newspaper states
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.
fourteen seized trip
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.
witness
I think you're a witness and a recorder.
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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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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.