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John Pomfret
American Journalist
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience. John Pomfret
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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
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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
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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
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My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd. John Pomfret
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And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever. John Pomfret
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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
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I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions. John Pomfret
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Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered. John Pomfret
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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
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