Longtime CBS anchor and "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley on Friday laid part of the blame for the spread of false information at the feet of “self-dealing politicians” who seek to benefit themselves, calling it a danger to democracy, reports The Hill.
“We live in a time where never in human history has more information been available to more people. That’s a great thing,” Pelley said CBS' “The Late Show with Steven Colbert” on Friday.
“But never in human history has more bad information been available to more people. That is a big change in our generation, for the next generation, a big change for America. You have to have solid, reliable information for people to make decisions about their families and their country.”
Pelley, a former anchor of "CBS Evening News" who is promoting his new book “Truth Worth Telling,” pointed to the spread of false information online in recent years.
“So much of what we are reading and seeing is a cynical attempt by hostile foreign governments or self-dealing politicians to poison that landscape. What’s the most dangerous thing to a democracy? Is it terrorism? War? Maybe another Great Recession? I don’t think so. I think the biggest danger to a democracy is poisoning the information.”
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