Scott Pelley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Scott Pelley

#Strong #America #Quality
If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?
-- Scott Pelley

#Holocaust #Survivor #Interviews
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

#Thinking #America #People
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

#Answers #Care #Way
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

#Wall #Beats #Wanted
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

#Interesting #Trying #Interviews
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.
-- Scott Pelley

#Democracy #Succeed #Journalism
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?
-- Scott Pelley

#Thinking #People #Want
There is no democracy without journalism.
-- Scott Pelley

#Democracy #Journalism
That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.
-- Scott Pelley

#Gossip #Journalism #Antidote
Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.
-- Scott Pelley

#Stories #Bigs #Journalist
No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.
-- Scott Pelley

#Television #Newspapers #Wanted
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
-- Scott Pelley

#Editors #Today #Faces
Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.
-- Scott Pelley

#People #Information #Humans
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.
-- Scott Pelley

#Ideas #Firsts #Video

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