Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.
Harold EvansWhat 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.
Harold Evans[The web] is going to end up being a tremendous advantage, providing we can work out the financial structure. I think weโll see newspapers survive, being printed at home... Or youโll 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 newspaperโs cost, youโll 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. Thereโs a terrific future for print in my view and it gives me great heart.
Harold EvansI 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.
Harold EvansThe 'gatekeepers' became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration a news organ, whether it's on the web or in print, brings to the floodwaters of information. I haven't the time to read all the dispatches of the Associated Press, for example. It's fantastic what they put out, it's extremely good, from all over the world. I like when someone acts as a filter.
Harold Evans