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The SEVEN days, the SEVEN nights, the SEVEN wonders, it’s been my beautiful prayer to God
Sep 26, 2020
FOR 70 years, working in the tough trenches of journalism, he rose up the ladder to set the standards that now represent the finest qualities of this grand old profession.
Fourteen of those years were spent as editor of leading British newspaper, Sunday Times .
There, he took on the Distillers Company, fighting for compensation for victims of Thalidomide, a drug which was prescribed to pregnant women, around the world,
Its manufacturers claimed it controlled morning sickness.
But, what they didn’t tell the public, was that it also was responsible for children being born blind, with deformed hearts and even with missing limbs.
Sir Harold Evans, and his Sunday Times team, exposed that and their campaign ended with the European Court of Human Rights awarding the victims’ families £20 million in compensation.
But, that’s just part of the compelling tale.
The Distillers Company, at that time, provided the Sunday Times with the newspaper’s biggest advertising revenue receipts.
And, that Sir Evans, and his team were prepared to lose all that, for the sake of the poor victims, remains one of the highest points in journalism’s eternal battle, for its purity, against the voracious beast of commercial interests.
On Wednesday, Sir Evans’ big heart finally gave in and, at the age of 92, he passed away in New York.
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