I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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