Scott Pelley Quotes

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• If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?
• Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.
• 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…
• In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
• No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.
• Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.
• That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.
• There is no democracy without 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more…

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