Scott Pelley Quotes

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

I have broken a lot of stories.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

A lot of things the press say are nonsense.

The way we get our news is very important, and the idea that the media doesn't always do right by us, and that they focus on things they shouldn't for ratings, is very important, and it's absolutely worthy of ridicule.

There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists - and the rest of us - must stop giving equal time to things that don't have an opposing side.

If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it's your opponents and the journalists who lie.

Misinformation is a virus unto itself. And Fox News is the vector.

My humble request to journalists - It only takes one phone call or an email to check facts.

False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and it does harm to the subjects of the speech, whose reputations and careers are damaged by it.

There is a war on truth raging every day, and journalists have been forced to fight some of those.

I'm not in the business of being 'friendly.' First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever. But I believe in facts.

When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.

The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

Looking back, Mr. Trump's exploitation of the term 'fake news' to smear journalists was the single most consequential thing he did during the transition period. He built the scaffolding for his supporters to reject any and all information that wasn't Trump-approved.

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.

Journalists have to call out and correct the lies and smears polluting the air waves.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation.or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda.

In the news feed on your phone, all stories look the same - whether they come from a credible source or not.

I think there is a danger when it comes to fake news because there is some fake news out there, but there's also a danger when you only hear back to you the beliefs you already have.