Scott Pelley Quotes

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

The public doesn't know what to believe anymore. We don't know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of 'fake news.' We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It's half entertainment and half mystery.

That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing you know, it's in 'USA Today.'

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.

Don't believe the fake media.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

The 'Fake News Alert' Chrome extension, created by 'New York Magazine' journalist Brian Feldman, identifies hoax news articles. However, cutting out fake news source entirely from operating is easier said than done, since anyone with internet access can create fake news.

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

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly by where we are right now in this moment in history.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.