Harold Evans Quotes

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

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

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

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.

I think America has a brilliant future.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

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.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

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

[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained.

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.

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

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

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

My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.