What I'm driving at is let's not lose sight in our excitement of the democratization of the media that some things are bad, false and ugly - and no amount of electronic gloss will make them true, beautiful and accurate. — 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“The proliferation of nominalizations in a discursive formation may be an indication of a tendency toward pomposity and abstraction.” — Harold Evans Copy Share
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
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them. — Harold Evans Copy Share
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
“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
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… — Harold Evans Copy Share
What I'm driving at is let's not lose sight in our excitement of the democratization of the media that some things are bad, false… — Harold Evans Copy Share
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… — Harold Evans Copy Share
