Sydney Schanberg

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. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#born #brooklyn #even #friends #goodbye

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. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#bush #bush administration #daily #lacey #new

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. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#demise #did #distance #else #him

People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#huge #issues #national #new #new york

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#covering #either #entities #job #mainstream

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#always #been #paper #part #role

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#high #high school #little #school #society

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. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#book #commentary #disappointed #front #happened

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. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#call #criticize #figures #just #news