Harold Evans
Harold Evans
For Douglas Harold Evans, see Douglas H. Evans...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth28 June 1928
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It's a story of terrific heroism (with) many, many dramatic stories of individuals,
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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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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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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My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.
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I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.
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The purpose of the book is to see what happened to America; both to the people in it, and to its relationships with the rest of the world.