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Author Profession: Journalist

Nationality: American

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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

Life, Work, Experience, Someone, Person

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

Good, Eyes, Myself, Best, Believe, Think

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

Army, Me, Help, Question, Map, More

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

Time, City, New York, New, Late, Page

I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China. John Pomfret

Secret, China, Interest, Made, Trip, His

And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early. John Pomfret

Opportunity, Lucky, Enough, Go, Early

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

Small, Police, Back, Newspaper, Week

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

Travel, Desire, Living, Become, Like

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively. John Pomfret

Journalism, Doing, Just, Learned, Had

In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything. John Pomfret

You, Talk, Will, Some, Anything, Because

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

People, You, Difficult, Information, Get

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

You, Your, Audience, Disconnect, Much

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

Best, Time, Think, Values, Trying, Some

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

Life, Problems, Down, American, Us, Fact

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