--- title: "1 Television Radio Quotes By Harold Evans" description: "1 Television Radio quotes by Harold Evans. Plus more from Harold Evans and more Television Radio sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35b/harold-evans-15687_baghdad_television-and-radio-are-what-i-call-seq_967530.jpg" --- > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/television-and-radio-are-what-i-call-sequential-media-they-re-not/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35b/harold-evans-15687_baghdad_television-and-radio-are-what-i-call-seq_967530.jpg) ## More by Harold Evans > [ \[The web\] is going to end up being a tremendous advantage, providing we can work out the financial structure. I think we’ll see newspapers… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/the-web-is-going-to-end-up-being-a-tremendous-advantage-providing-we/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/here-s-a-sampling-i-made-from-the-usual-suspects-print-tv-radio/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/the-democratization-of-news-is-fine-and-splendid-but-it-s-not/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/if-i-want-to-spend-the-rest-of-my-life-reading-one-day-s-output-of/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [“The grossest offenders are in the field of, in connection with, in order to, in respect of, so far as… is concerned. All sorts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/the-grossest-offenders-are-in-the-field-of-in-connection-with-in/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/people-were-murdered-for-the-camera-and-some-photographers-and-a/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [“The proliferation of nominalizations in a discursive formation may be an indication of a tendency toward pomposity and abstraction.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/the-proliferation-of-nominalizations-in-a-discursive-formation-may-be/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [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 -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/i-often-see-cases-of-internet-news-where-there-s-no-reconciliation/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/propaganda-is-persuading-people-to-make-up-their-minds-while/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/the-camera-cannot-lie-but-it-can-be-an-accessory-to-untruth/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/actions-are-always-more-complex-and-nuanced-than-they-seem-we-have-to/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [“Prepositional verbs grow like toadstools. Once there was credit in facing a problem. Now problems have to be faced up to. The prepositions add…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/prepositional-verbs-grow-like-toadstools-once-there-was-credit-in/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/we-always-talk-about-how-everyone-is-unifocal-you-can-t-possibly-be/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/what-i-m-driving-at-is-let-s-not-lose-sight-in-our-excitement-of-the/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-evans/television-and-radio-are-what-i-call-sequential-media-they-re-not/) [Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-evans/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/television-radio/harold-evans/#itemlist", "name": "1 Television Radio Quotes By Harold Evans", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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. 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