Scott Pelley says that Trump would be ‘harmful’ to CBS
CBS News -Veteraan Scott Pelley sounded the possibility that Paramount Global reached a scheme in the unprecedented lawsuit that was submitted against CBS and “60 minutes” last year by President Donald Trump.
Pelley participated on Saturday evening in an interview with CNN Anchor and colleague “60 minutes” Correspondent Anderson Cooper who followed CNN’s Live broadcast of the Broadway game “Good Night and Good Luck”. The piece tells about the milestone moment in 1954 when CBS news legend Edward R. Murrow challenged the sloppy smears of senator Joseph McCarthy at the peak of the anti-communist fear.
“The most important thing is to have the courage to speak, not to let fear penetrate the country so that everyone suddenly is silent,” said Pelley, who used to keep Murrow’s chair as a “CBS news” anchor, said about the role that journalism plays in democracy.
“If you have the courage to speak, we will be saved. If you become quiet, the country is doomed,” he said. “It’s all that the country will save. You can’t have democracy without journalism. It can’t be done.”
Pelley left no doubt about the sensitive subject of Paramount Global and the Trump right case. A financial regulation or apology of the majority of the president would be a blow to the principles of American journalism. Pelley said that a settlement “would be very harmful to CBS, for the utmost importance, for the reputation of those companies.”
Pelley noticed earlier this year on the similar dynamics when the Trump administration put into large law firms under pressure to contribute pro bono work to causes or can be confronted with executive orders that focus on their companies.
“I think many of the law firms who have closed deals with the White House are at the moment. It doesn’t seem like their best hour,” Pelley said.
