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Scott Pelley Biography

Scott Cameron Pelley (born July 28, 1957) is an American journalist who has been a correspondent and anchor for CBS News for almost 30 years. Currently, Pelley is a correspondent for the CBS News Magazine 60 Minutes. From 2011 to 2017, he was also the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News.

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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.

Across, Country, Know, Men, Represent, Views

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.

Answers, Care, Interested, Way

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.

Believe, Fighting, Hands, Polls, Saying, Take

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.

Country, Democracies, Higher, Running, Strong

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

Hire, Newspaper, Newspapers, Television, Wanted, Worked

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?

Majority, People, Right, Thinking

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.

America, Journalism, People, Pillars, Quality, Thinking

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.

Anywhere, Beats, Head, Recruited, Wall, Wanted

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

Hours, Problem, Stories, Thing

Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don't.

Cable, News, People, Watch, Watches

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Based, Democracies, Democracy, Fail, Succeed, Where We Come

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

Bad, History, Human, Humans, Information, People

There is no democracy without journalism.

Democracy, Journalism

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.

Firsts, Forget, Remember, Wrong

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

Big, Bigs, Journalist, Stories, Wrong

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

Elie, Energy, Holocaust, Survivor