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
I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in 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.
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 asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?
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.
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.
I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation.
As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.
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.
It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
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.
People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.
The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.