Harold Evans
Harold Evans
For Douglas Harold Evans, see Douglas H. Evans...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth28 June 1928
thinking views waiting
Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's there; don't delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.
jobs thinking editors
I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500 letters a day, and part of my job as editor was to edit them. And I thought that was one of the best things in the newspaper, and it was instituted by an editor known as Big Tom, who said 'this is the voice of the people.' And he was quite right.
thinking example filters
The 'gatekeepers' became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration a news organ, whether it's on the web or in print, brings to the floodwaters of information. I haven't the time to read all the dispatches of the Associated Press, for example. It's fantastic what they put out, it's extremely good, from all over the world. I like when someone acts as a filter.
believe thinking editors
It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy of the web - nonetheless the access to speeches, documents is unparalleled with the ease of gathering information. If I had had that access when I was an editor or coming up, it would have made my life so much easier. As it was, everything took so much longer.
home heart thinking
[The web] is going to end up being a tremendous advantage, providing we can work out the financial structure. I think we'll see newspapers survive, being printed at home. Or you'll have a local print shop, so that rather than waiting for the newspapers to arrive by truck, which is 30 percent at least of a newspaper's cost, you'll go in and push a button, and it will take your dollar bills without anyone having to be there. And it will print the newspaper for you while you wait. It will take seven minutes. There's a terrific future for print in my view and it gives me great heart.
teenager thinking doors
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.
thinking america brilliant
I think America has a brilliant future.
attention ought people short stories
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.
dramatic heroism stories terrific
It's a story of terrific heroism (with) many, many dramatic stories of individuals,
further season start using
Once we get further into the irrigation season and start using more water, we'll get all of it flushed out.
best bothering jon possible pride providing takes water
Jon takes a lot of pride in providing the best water possible and this has really been bothering him.
america book both happened people purpose relationships rest
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.
artist creative google
[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained.
two stanford-university people
When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.