I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn’t regarded as the paper, it was … - Harold Evans

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Harold Evans

I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn’t regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was a sense of community because they reported, we reported, I reported the little things, the whist drives, the weddings, the funerals, the little speeches. In one sense it was the most boring copy in the world to anyone picking it up, but, on the other hand, it was crucial to the people who lived in those communities.

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

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

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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

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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.

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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.

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