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.

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.

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.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

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

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

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.