When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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 EvansPropaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.
Harold EvansI 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.
Harold EvansI had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasnโt 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.
Harold Evans