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  • No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

    "5 Things to Know About Scott Pelley". www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 05, 2011.
  • Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don't.

    Source: deadline.com
  • If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.

  • If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

    "Hellfire and Heresy: Global Warming Hotheads Inflamed About Skeptical Challengers". www.forbes.com. March 23, 2006.
  • There is no democracy without journalism.

    "CBS' Scott Pelley on Fake News, Trump's War on the Press and His Favorite Movie of the Year" by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 23, 2016.
  • We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.

  • I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?

    "CBS's Pelley Grills McCain, Kroft & Couric Chatted With Democrats". www.newsbusters.org. March 10, 2008.
  • You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That is how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses and that is where we come in.

  • The American people can always be trusted with the information.

    Source: deadline.com
  • Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

    "Scott Pelley Is No Fred Friendly" by Michael Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2013.
  • When you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody's views and have got to give them the impression that you are being as honest as you know how to be.

    Source: deadline.com
  • I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.

    "Scott Pelley Slams Fox News Over Mark Owen Reveal, Wants to Interview the Pope". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2013.
  • The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

    "Scott Pelley: In His Own Words" by Beth Knobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.
  • The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o

    Source: deadline.com
  • Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

  • The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

    Source: deadline.com
  • Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

  • Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

    "Scott Pelley: ‘We’re Getting the Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again’". Scott Pelley's speech at the accepting his Fred Friendly First Amendment award at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Club in New York, www.adweek.com. May 10, 2013.
  • Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

    "Scott Pelley: In His Own Words" by Beth Knobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.
  • No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

    "Scott Pelley: In His Own Words" by Beth Knobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.
  • You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying or worried about the negative attacks. If you believe in something, go fight for it.

    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.

    Scott Pelley's speech upon receiving the Fred Friendly journalism award at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, May 11, 2013.
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Scott Pelley

  • Born: July 28, 1957
  • Occupation: Journalist