That Quote Has a Ring to It

When one writer tells another they want a special inscription in their wedding bands, well...it gets complicated. Robert Basler explains:

By Robert Basler,

On June 4,1989, the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, I was in the Reuters office in Beijing, taking notes from our reporters in the Square, who were using clunky, barely portable mobile phones. I used those notes to cobble together stories that were going out to a horrified world. One of our reporters dictated a quote from a prot…