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CBS Anchor: 'We Are Getting Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again'
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Posted on 05/11/2013 9:48:45 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

CBS Anchor: 'We Are Getting Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again'

"Our house is on fire."

Daniel Halper May 11, 2013 12:09 PM

CBS anchor Scott Pelley said at a speech at Quinnipiac University that journalists "are getting big stories wrong, over and over again."

"Our house is on fire," said Pelley. The video of Pelley's speech is courtesy of nowthisnews.com.

"These have been a bad few months for journalism," he added. "We're getting the big stories wrong, over and over again."

The CBS newsreader was quick to take at least partial blame. "Let me take the first arrow: During our coverage of Newtown, I sat on my set and I reported that Nancy Lanza was a teacher at the school. And that her son had attacked her classroom. It's a hell of a story, but it was dead wrong. Now, I was the managing editor, I made the decision to go ahead with that and I did, and that's what I said, and I was absolutely wrong. So let me just take the first arrow here."

And Pelley said the republic relies on the quality of the news business. "Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism," said Pelley. "America is strong because its journalism is strong. That's 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."


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To: Sub-Driver
Years ago newspapers were concerned they were losing trust because of simple spelling and punctuation errors. It was a totally self-serving and shallow excuse for the larger issue: that credibility was lost because of bias. CBS is doing the same.

It's not small mistakes in breaking stories that's the problem. It's bias. It's getting stories that are fed to them by liberal sources. It's NOT having a diverse newsroom ( diversity of ideas not diversity of what people do in bed - or pigmentation.)

41 posted on 05/11/2013 10:20:08 AM PDT by GOPJ ( A gang rape by Eight isn't 'immigration reform'... Send the millions of illegals home.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism

The term, in Ebonics, is: We be F@#%ed.

42 posted on 05/11/2013 10:22:12 AM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: Sub-Driver
"America is strong because its journalism is strong.

He got that wrong, too. Journalism is bad and is polluting America.

43 posted on 05/11/2013 10:22:45 AM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: Sub-Driver
So let me just take the first arrow here.

So resign you elitist, it's-all-about-me, treasonous, POS propagandist.

44 posted on 05/11/2013 10:24:37 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Sub-Driver

They are constantly wrong because their premise is wrong...


45 posted on 05/11/2013 10:27:13 AM PDT by Popman (Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The fact he still has his job and was invited to speak tells the whole story.


46 posted on 05/11/2013 10:28:01 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Sub-Driver
CBS Anchor: 'We Are Getting Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again'

When only a Presidential "Face Palm" will suffice.


47 posted on 05/11/2013 10:30:02 AM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Maybe they should try reporting facts instead of promoting propaganda.


48 posted on 05/11/2013 10:31:06 AM PDT by henkster (I have one more cow than my neighbor. I am a kulak.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Who cares? Their credibility is ZERO.

The MSM is about as relevant as spinning wheels.

(Although they spin very well.)


49 posted on 05/11/2013 10:35:42 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Sub-Driver

“Let’s get it nailed down...somebody...let’s find out! Let’s get it straight so we can report this thing accurately!,” Frank Reynolds (ABC, 1981).


50 posted on 05/11/2013 10:35:58 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Even then there are bacteria in the room that are more intelligent and articulate than Obunghole, they don’t need a teleprompter in chief.


51 posted on 05/11/2013 10:46:36 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: PoloSec

That should read “the last 50 years”.


52 posted on 05/11/2013 10:50:04 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

If the MSM doesn’t cover all the news and messes up what they do, why would anyone watch/read them? Even liberals. It’s a waste of time.


53 posted on 05/11/2013 10:50:26 AM PDT by mom.mom
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54 posted on 05/11/2013 10:51:53 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah but what Pelley doesn’t mention is how they are doing this deliberately..whatever can hurt Obama they either refuse to report or fudge the facts to put the blame on Republicans


55 posted on 05/11/2013 10:54:14 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: henkster

“Maybe they should try reporting facts instead of promoting propaganda.”

Now that there’s funny I don’t care who you are.


56 posted on 05/11/2013 11:01:34 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Moonman62
"...a communist, a socialist, a liberal and a progressive..."

Sounds like this year's line-up of commencement speakers across the nation. BTW, it reminds me of a great joke:


A socialist, a muslim and an illegal alien walk into a bar.

"What can I get you, Mr. President?" says the bartender...

57 posted on 05/11/2013 11:01:48 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: babble-on

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but they are on the internet.


58 posted on 05/11/2013 11:04:31 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Feckless

Ebonics prefers Motherf’d.


59 posted on 05/11/2013 11:08:31 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Sub-Driver; Moonman62




60 posted on 05/11/2013 11:12:47 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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