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The Press Is Not the Enemy
There Is No Democracy Without Journalism Scott Pelley has been shot at. He spent nights in waterlogged foxholes in the desert, filed dispatches from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait, and did all of it in service of an informed American public. When Donald Trump called him "fake news" and "the enemy of the people," Pelley did not retreat into polite hedging. Pelley joined CBS News in 1989 after years covering local Texas politics and anchored the CBS Evening News from 2011 to 201

Maria Salinas
Jun 235 min read
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