CBS News’ Scott Pelley Sends Bold Message About Donald Trump Lawsuit
Former CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley sent a bold message about Donald Trump‘s lawsuit against the network during an appearance on 60 Minutes—and the journalist didn’t mince words with his blunt declaration.
On Saturday, June 7, Pelley, 67, sat down with Anderson Cooper, 58, to speak about the lawsuit targeting CBS’ parent company, Paramount Global.
The interview came right after CNN aired a live broadcast of the Broadway play Good Night, and Good Luck starring George Clooney. In the production, Clooney portrays the late journalist Edward R. Murrow, who famously challenged Senator Joseph McCarthy’s tactics during the Red Scare.
“The most important thing is to have the courage to speak, to not let fear permeate the country so that everyone suddenly becomes silent,” Pelley told Cooper.
“If you have the courage to speak, we are saved. If you fall silent, the country is doomed,” the journalist continued “It is the only thing that’s gonna save the country. You cannot have democracy without journalism. It can’t be done.”
Perhaps most notably, Pelley addressed Trump’s current lawsuit with Paramount Global, and he didn’t hold back with his opinion.
Cooper asked Pelley how damaging it would be if there were a settlement and apology in the Parmount Global-Trump case.
He bluntly replied that it would be “very damaging to CBS, to Paramount, to the reputation of those companies.”
Recently, 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl echoed Pelley’s sentiments when she called out CBS for how it is handling the Trump case.
“To have a news organization come under corporate pressure—to have a news organization told by a corporation, ‘do this, do that with your story, change this, change that, don’t run that piece.’ I mean, it steps on the First Amendment, it steps on the freedom of the press,” Stahl said on The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast, per Fox News Digital. “It steps on what we stand for. It makes me question whether any corporation should own a news operation. It is very disconcerting.”
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I agree we have the Bill of Rights which gives us freedom of speech and I feel we must not lose our right to speak out against something we know is wrong. The freedom of the Press can not be dumbed down! If no one can speak the truth What Kind Of Americans are we? We can not be silenced. against what we know is wrong. Stop the Madness that is taking place right in front of us all! And RISE up Because an Injustice for one is an Injustice for all!
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Unfortunately what we have now is NOT Journalism. The main stream media including Pelley have sold their souls and relay their agenda instead of reporting the truth. Pushing their opinion on what they want people to believe is not American. We need a cleaning out of the corruption and a return to the high standard of reporting the facts no matter if they like them or not.
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Its a bit rich Lesley Stahl complaining about being told to "do this, do that with your story, change this...". Her disastrous denial of the Hunter laptop will be there for her (and us) us to see for all eternity. Trump gave her every chance, then, to face the truth and "change this" and "do that" and correct her story of lies and denials, and she responded by emphatically denying yet again the existence of the laptop.
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Those aforementioned reporters ate all Trump haters and biased at best .
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Tell it, Scott!! 👍
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Terry Moron hit piece
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Pelley is just fluffing his own pillow in the event they cancel 60 Minutes. They heavily edited the Kamala clip and got caught it’s simple as that. Pelley is as left slanted as it gets and is just a blow hard hypocrite. With the exception of Fox all the traditional main stream media are complicit in Lying about Biden’s mental health. Has Pelley wrote a book yet ? I’m sure he’ll be looking to cash in soon. 🙄
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