Scott Pelley Quotes

Scott Cameron Pelley is an American journalist who has been a correspondent and anchor for CBS News for almost 30 years. Currently, Pelley is a correspondent for the CBS News Magazine 60 Minutes. From 2011 to 2017, he was also the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News.



✵ 28. July 1957
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“Is terrorism the greatest threat to our country, or a recession? I suggest to you today that the quickest, most direct way to ruin a democracy is to poison the information.”

21 November 2016 Speech at Arizona State University upon receiving the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism award. CBS News Anchor Scott Pelley Receives Cronkite Award from ASU' https://cronkite.asu.edu/news-and-events/news/cbs-news-anchor-scott-pelley-receives-cronkite-award-asu-0,

“In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today.”

11 May 2013 Speech at Quinnipiac University upon receiving the Fred Friendly journalism award. YouTube, CBS News anchor Scott Pelley: 'We're Getting the Big Stories Wrong Over and Over Again' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AyCD_lcl1Q,

“Making social media liable would mean Twitter, Facebook, even Wkipedia and Yelp couldn't exist as we know them”

On 60-Minutes Why victims of internet lies want Section 230 repealed https://www.cbsnews.com/news/section-230-internet-60-minutes-2021-01-03/ broadcast January 3, 2020

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