Sydney Schanberg
Sydney Schanberg
Sydney Hillel Schanbergwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth17 January 1934
CountryUnited States of America
There's something inside Lacey that led him to think this was an adversary group before he ever had a serious conversation with members of the staff.
As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.
I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation.
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.
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.
I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?
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.
I don't judge myself by what someone says.
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.
Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.
The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.
People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of 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.
It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.