51 Quotes by Harold Evans

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things – mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

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.

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.

Nothing is so tiring to the reader as excavating nuggets of meaning from mountains of words.

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.

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