Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, thatβs not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.
Scott PelleyRead
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote warns about the risks of unfiltered information in the digital age.
Scott Pelley's quote highlights a critical aspect of the modern information landscape: the democratization of publishing through digital platforms has led to an overload of unverified and often misleading information. Without the traditional role of editors to curate and fact-check content, society faces the danger of misinformation spreading unchecked, which can have serious consequences for public understanding and discourse.
Themes
InformationEditorPublisherDangerDigitalMedia
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used during a seminar about digital literacy to emphasize the importance of critical thinking.
More from Scott Pelley
All quotes βThe quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.
Scott PelleyRead
America is strong because its journalism is strong. That's how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses. And that is where we come in.
Scott PelleyRead
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That is how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses and that is where we come in.
Scott PelleyRead
Similar quotes
Nintendo is a company of Kyoto craftsmen, and what we don't want to do is, if we know we can make something better, we don't want to leave that behind.
Satoru IwataRead
My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.
Steve WozniakRead
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
Marshall McluhanRead
Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.
Mark ZuckerbergRead
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
Alan KayRead
We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention to whether people liked it. We read through it and see it, but we don't take it into consideration. ... [The Internet] is not going to dictate the direction of where the game goes.
Shigeru MiyamotoRead