CBS news anchor Scott Pelley offered an apology — for the wrong reason.
“Our house is on fire,” said the CBS News managing editor and evening anchor. Pelley, in a recent speech at Quinnipiac University, said: “Today, right now, as we occupy this house (of American journalism) that was built for us, our house is on fire. These have been a bad few months for journalism. We’re getting the big stories wrong, over and over again.”
Oh, please, pass the Kleenex.
You mean news outlets frequently get facts wrong when competing to satisfy the public’s desire for information?! When has that not been the case? Remember when we were told that given the number of people working at the World Trade Center on 9/11/01, we should expect 20,000 to 40,000 dead? During Hurricane Katrina, some news outlets described gun battles that turned out to be nonexistent and offered up death totals that thankfully turned out to be exaggerated.
By him saying THE PAST FEW MONTHS, these frauds have not changed one bit.
Perhaps you should stop reporting the big stories wrong, over and over again. The American citizens are the ones who are "getting" them wrong, because they're getting them from you!
“During Hurricane Katrina,”
I particularly liked the ‘toxic soup’ story about how the flood waters contained every disease known to mankind and some new ones, too! ;-)