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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. John Pomfret Read Quote
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. John Pomfret Read Quote
Whereas with foreign coverage there’s a much broader disconnect between you and your audience. John Pomfret Read Quote
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 Read Quote