Harold Evans
Harold Evans
For Douglas Harold Evans, see Douglas H. Evans...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth28 June 1928
fall enemy friendly
When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.
fool news internet
Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.
real bosnia saws
I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that was the thing that would happen in the future, someone phoning in what they were seeing on the scene. Whether it's the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Drudge Report or the BBC, all those reports, you have to assume there's a real person [who] has credibility.
running important essentials
The credibility of a newspaper or news magazine is essential so you can check it for accuracy. I'm not saying it's not valuable. One can make a case for just running everything. Just run it! That's one of the advantages of the web, you can run everything - but you don't help the reader find out what's important.
reading gun jazz
We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'
mean cliche stereotype
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
father years railroads
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
thinking america brilliant
I think America has a brilliant future.
later-in-life training important
I often see cases of Internet news where there's no reconciliation for what's gone before and what's newly arrived. That training for me - which was absolutely brutal and I was terrified - was so important, especially later in life when one was faced with conflicting stories and conflicting evidence.
tyrants people mind
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.
sweat sound journalism
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
america groups individual
Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.
people news television
The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the web, and people are sounding off about something that's not necessarily true.
firsts vitality united-states
When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.