John Pomfret Fact Quotations

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.

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.

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.

But the difference is that in an overseas assignment there is an emphasis on the facts but there's also a much greater emphasis on interpretation.