This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British paratroopers. We interviewed 500 people for our report, and not one of them… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
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. — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
[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… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“Here’s a sampling I made from the usual suspects (print, TV, radio, magazines). Zombies on the left, purgatives on the right, word counts in… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
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… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“The grossest offenders are in the field of, in connection with, in order to, in respect of, so far as… is concerned. All sorts… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“The proliferation of nominalizations in a discursive formation may be an indication of a tendency toward pomposity and abstraction.” — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
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 -… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them. — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“Prepositional verbs grow like toadstools. Once there was credit in facing a problem. Now problems have to be faced up to. The prepositions add… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
![“This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British paratroopers. We interviewed 500 people for our report, and not one of them could give us a total picture of what was happening. It was like the Rashomon…” quote by Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d6b/harold-evans-15687_bloody_this-impressed-me-when-i-was-the-editor_1155576.jpg)
![“[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…” quote by Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/473/harold-evans-15687_advantage_the-web-is-going-to-end-up-being-a-treme_47749.jpg)
![“If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK fine. But I personally prefer calibration from an aggregator or newspaper, where the No. 1 story is one they consider important, [and] they're usually right.” quote by Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/17f/harold-evans-15687_calibration_if-i-want-to-spend-the-rest-of-my-life-r_193195.jpg)
