Scott Pelley
Scott Pelley
Scott Cameron Pelley is an American journalist. Pelley is the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, and is a correspondent for the CBS News magazine, 60 Minutes. Prior to his position on 60 Minutes, Pelley served as a correspondent on 60 Minutes II from 1999 to 2004, and as the CBS News Chief White House Correspondent from 1997 to 1999...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth28 July 1957
CitySan Antonio, TX
CountryUnited States of America
No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.
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.
Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.
That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.
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?
The American people can always be trusted with the information.
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.
There is no democracy without journalism.
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.