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.
Harold EvansPropaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.
Harold EvansSome blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.
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 EvansInternet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.
Harold EvansI often see cases of Internet news where there's no reconciliation for what's gone before and what's newly arrived. That training for me - which was absolutely brutal and I was terrified - was so important, especially later in life when one was faced with conflicting stories and conflicting evidence.
Harold Evans