Harold Evans
Harold Evans
For Douglas Harold Evans, see Douglas H. Evans...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth28 June 1928
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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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Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.
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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.
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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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Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.
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People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in the absence of cameramen acts might not be committed. Others felt that the mob was beyond appeal to mercy. They stayed and won Pulitzer Prizes. Were they right?
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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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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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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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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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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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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.
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We're all told that people are busy, and have short attention spans, and yet these stories are so marvelous, and really ought to be read.
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I don't think the pictures and words can be separated, ... If you get an amazing photograph, like the dust clouds blowing over a small town in Kansas, it's not enough to look at the picture; (the readers) want to know, 'How did this happen, that half the farming soil of a whole state is blown away?' And then you want to know, 'Well, what happened to the people, and what kind of condition were they in? It's in the middle of the '30s, and most of them were unemployed, and how did they get out of it? Why didn't the politicians act sooner?'