Harold Evans
Harold Evans
For Douglas Harold Evans, see Douglas H. Evans...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth28 June 1928
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Jon takes a lot of pride in providing the best water possible and this has really been bothering him.
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It's a story of terrific heroism (with) many, many dramatic stories of individuals,
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Once we get further into the irrigation season and start using more water, we'll get all of it flushed out.
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
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Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down an electronic or print page and pick among six or seven stories you might like and want to read. With television and radio, you have to wait until the guy's finished talking about the balloon boy, which I don't have the slightest interest in, to find out that all hell's broken loose in Baghdad. Because they've chosen that day to start with the balloon boy.
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Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.
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Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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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.
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Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.
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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.
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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
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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!'