“Our house is on fire,” Pelley told the audience. “These
have been a bad few months for journalism. We’re getting the big stories wrong
over and over again,” reports The Global Dispatch.
“Let me take the first arrow,” he continued. “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.”
“Our nation was attacked by terrorists,” Pelley said
discussing the Boston Marathon bombing. “I cannot think of a time when the
public that we serve needs accurate, timely information more than in those
moments when our country is under attack.”
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