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

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.

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

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.

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.

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.