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John Pomfret quotes

American Journalist

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A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life. John Pomfret
Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to. John Pomfret
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. John Pomfret
John Pomfret quote: "I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions."
I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions. John Pomfret
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. John Pomfret
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. John Pomfret
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. John Pomfret
John Pomfret quote: "I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the..."
I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China. John Pomfret
John Pomfret quote: "My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle,..."
My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd. John Pomfret
For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army. John Pomfret
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. John Pomfret
But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight. John Pomfret
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. John Pomfret
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. John Pomfret
John Pomfret quote: "The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession."
The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession. John Pomfret

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