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Harold Evans Biography

Sir Harold Matthew Evans (born 28 June 1928) is a British-born journalist and writer who was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981.

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I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that was the thing that would happen in the future, someone phoning in what they were seeing on the scene. Whether it's the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Drudge Report or the BBC, all those reports, you have to assume there's a real person [who] has credibility.

Cleansing, Person, Real, Saw, Saws

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 be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'

Die, Gun, Jazz, Online, Reading

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.

Day, Editors, Jobs, Thinking, Thought, Vent

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

Father, Railroad, Railroads, Years

If Rupert Murdoch wants to charge for content online, he will succeed in so far, but no further than what he provides that is unique and can't be found anywhere. It doesn't seem to me that if he wants to charge it will be a blow to universal freedom and liberty of mankind.

Blow, Freedom, Further, Liberty, Unique

I love craftsmanship of any kind, a job well done either by my chiropractor or carpenter, and I am addicted to print, the type, the ink. But my basic passion is journalism and I can't live without being online.

Craftsmanship, Ink, Job, Jobs, Love, Passion

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.

Teenager, Thinking, Doors, Lost, Impressed

I think America has a brilliant future.

America, Brilliant, Think, Thinking

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Action, Complex, Nuanced, Paradox, Understanding, Willing

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

Blogging, Check, Frequent, Funny, Mainstream, Thoughtful

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.

People, News, Television, Picked, Democratization

[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.

Advantage, Dollar, Heart, Home, Thinking, View

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.

Important, One Day, Prefer, Reading, Rest, Story

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Cliche, Clichés, Mean, Rejecting, Stereotype, Stereotypes

When came the invasion of privacy. That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.

Enemy, Fall, Friendly, Invasion, Kind, Newspapers

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.

Believe, Ease, Editors, Said, Thinking, Time

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

Accessory, Camera, Cameras, Lying, Photography, Untruth

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

America, Group, Groups, History, Individual, Young

The credibility of a newspaper or news magazine is essential so you can check it for accuracy. I'm not saying it's not valuable. One can make a case for just running everything. Just run it! That's one of the advantages of the web, you can run everything - but you don't help the reader find out what's important.

Case, Credibility, Essentials, Important, News, Running

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

1956, Came, Firsts, Love, United States, Vitality

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