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."
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.)
The term, in Ebonics, is: We be F@#%ed.
He got that wrong, too. Journalism is bad and is polluting America.
So resign you elitist, it's-all-about-me, treasonous, POS propagandist.
They are constantly wrong because their premise is wrong...
The fact he still has his job and was invited to speak tells the whole story.
When only a Presidential "Face Palm" will suffice.
Maybe they should try reporting facts instead of promoting propaganda.
Who cares? Their credibility is ZERO.
The MSM is about as relevant as spinning wheels.
(Although they spin very well.)
“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).
Even then there are bacteria in the room that are more intelligent and articulate than Obunghole, they don’t need a teleprompter in chief.
That should read “the last 50 years”.
If the MSM doesnt cover all the news and messes up what they do, why would anyone watch/read them? Even liberals. Its a waste of time.
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
“Maybe they should try reporting facts instead of promoting propaganda.”
Now that there’s funny I don’t care who you are.
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...
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but they are on the internet.
Ebonics prefers Motherf’d.
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