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“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.”
― Richard Evans

“It is all well and good us condemning the journalism of Ward Price or Tucker Carlson or praising the determination of journalists like John Segrue or Norman Ebbutt. But ultimately, it is those of us who consume journalism and social media who have unwittingly created a media environment where proximity to power is valued more highly than the holding of it to account. It is us, as a society, who again and again have responded to the exposure of populists’ lies and contradictions with little more than a collective shrug. The truth is that there will always be George Ward Prices – journalists who have extreme political beliefs, who are prepared to put their careers over the public interest, or both. Until we learn the lesson of the dark path down which Ward Price’s brand of journalism can lead, we will continue to see journalism that divides us by appealing to our worst instincts have precedence over journalism that does the difficult and complex work of shining a light that helps us better understand our world.”
― Richard Evans, Interviewing Hitler: How George Ward Price Became the World's Most Famous Journalist

“May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it.”
― Richard Evans

“I have always thought of objectivity and impartiality as complex, messy concepts, tending to agree with BBC journalist Nick Robinsons view that impartiality is something to believe in and strive for but which you must accept you will almost certainly never quite achieve.”
― Richard Evans, Interviewing Hitler: How George Ward Price Became the World's Most Famous Journalist

“He regretted how progress was making people from different cultures more alike in how they dressed and in their political outlook. He noted sadly how ‘places as far apart as the foothills of the Himalayas and the shores of South Sea islands display the same advertisements of mineral waters, soap, and chewing gum’.”
― Richard Evans, Interviewing Hitler: How George Ward Price Became the World's Most Famous Journalist