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1 " My first trip to the mainland came after I had been traveling extensively in Asia on reporting assignments for The Journal of Commerce newspaper, located at that time on Wall Street in New York City. "
― Noel Marie Fletcher , My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China
2 " Her mother was stoned to death in China. During the Cultural Revolution, she was imprisoned, faced a sham trial by community party leaders, and executed. Her crime was her profession. My friend was very bitter. "
3 " Martin was very pro-American in his attitude and statements. When I knew him, he was divorced, alone and a Korean who had never lived in Korea—neither in what became North or South Korea. A man without a country. "
4 " He found all of this very cool, jumping right in to join me as we got down to the serious business of Chinese cuisine. "
5 " Novins had a great impact on my way of thinking and the journalist I became. Although also a friend of Walter Cronkite, he spoke to us mostly about Murrow. He had high expectations for his students. "
6 " It was difficult to go to one of my favorite Asian restaurants alongside the southern section of the square. All around the front door, the exterior of the building looked like it’d had a bad case of acne due to pitting—but the small round holes were from bullets. "
7 " I noticed a couple of dark things flying in a zigzagging pattern near the lights. I wondered what kind of night-flying strange birds they could be. Upon closer inspection, I realized they were bats. "
8 " Much older than myself, Martin was a distinguished and handsome career journalist who worked at the same newspaper I did. "
9 " He told me about being in school in Shanghai during the 1930s and 1940s where he played a Hawaiian guitar, wore a lei with his friends and sang in nightclubs. "
10 " I’d become hooked on journalism at once in college when I took my first news writing class at age 19. "
11 " There weren’t many foreign women living in Beijing at that time—much less zipping through traffic like I did wearing my sunglasses—with my window rolled down, radio blaring and a cigarette dangling from my fingertips. "
12 " How does what we see cloaked as “news” by “journalists” jive with his mandate that a journalist should strive to be objective, not blur facts with opinions, and maintain the impartial integrity of the noble profession of journalism? "
13 " Later I attended many press events at the Great Hall of the People. Each time I saw it, I was impressed. "
14 " Not agreeing with something that happened in history or with another person’s traditions doesn’t provide license to eradicate or vilify entire aspects of the past. "
15 " They were so shocked to see me (a woman) driving that I never had any trouble getting okayed to proceed past checkpoints. "
