It’s Official: Scott Pelley New ‘CBS Evening News’ Anchor

COMMENTS (14)

• Scott Pelley has been the best part of 60 Minutes for years, I’m glad he’s finally getting his due. I’m actually looking forward to network news now, and I haven’t felt that since the 90s…

  Comment by Duke Bunswalker — Tuesday May 3, 2011 @ 10:16am PDT  Reply to this post

• Dinosaurs trading deck chairs on the titanic…

  Comment by Claude — Tuesday May 3, 2011 @ 11:34am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Nailed that one!

    Comment by Fish with Legs — Tuesday May 3, 2011 @ 11:42am PDT  Reply to this post

• Pelley is indeed the best part of 60 Minutes – which is why he should have stayed there. Now he won’t be utilized as often there, and the chance of another Dan Rathereque Memogate blowing up in Pelley’s face increases exponentially. Bad choice…

  Comment by will — Tuesday May 3, 2011 @ 12:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I like their choice, but Claude is right. I go to Brian Williams for my serious news & was very happy to hear Tom Brokaw via phone on Sunday. How long will there still be news anchors I actually trust?

  Comment by Sorry — Tuesday May 3, 2011 @ 1:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Careful lest you be accused of sexism.

    Comment by PC Police — Tuesday May 3, 2011 @ 10:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• He’ll be great.

  Comment by SC — Tuesday May 3, 2011 @ 2:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• As one of the trade folks said today “Don’t be a game changer, don’t be modern, just read the news, day good night = LONG CAREER”

  Comment by P — Tuesday May 3, 2011 @ 2:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• *Say good night

  Comment by P — Tuesday May 3, 2011 @ 2:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yawn. I always liked CBS Evening News, even when it was wacky — remember the Dan Rather/Connie Chung pairing? Katie on CBS was great: a fresh face and voice, and even after they abandoned the edgier format (“freeSpeech”, Katie’s sit-down interviews off-desk) that debuted with her debut, I still kept tuning into the CBS Evening News. There’s no denying that Scott Pelley is a qualified journalist, but this is a step back that unfortunately echoes the ongoing dinosaur talk about the evening news business.

  Comment by Joe — Wednesday May 4, 2011 @ 7:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• It has been my great good pleasure to have met Scott Pelley outside of the precincts of CBS News on several occasions and to have talked with him at some length about the news business. I must tell you you couldn’t find a straighter shooter than Scott, He is a very good and decent man

  Comment by ewk — Wednesday May 4, 2011 @ 8:17am PDT  Reply to this post

• When you interviewed President Obama and he did not guarantee that social security checks would be sent out, if the debt limit would not be raised. I wonder why you did not ask him about his allocation of the 200 billion dollars a month. That he chose to intimidate seniors about their checks, when there would be plenty of funds to more than cover social security, military checks, boarder patrol, and others.

  Were you not fully prepared or giving the president a pass?

  Comment by Anonymous — Friday July 15, 2011 @ 9:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I love Scott Pelley and never miss the CBS News that I watch every night. I have to prerecord the CBS News because I work late and by the time I get home the News is over. I don’t want to miss him. Is there any chance that I can get a signed picture Autograph of Scott Pelley??? It would mean so much to me.

  Elaine Mitchell from Cherry Hill, NJ

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday November 21, 2011 @ 12:10pm PST  Reply to this post

• I HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM OR ISSUE WITH YOU SCOTT ,WHEN IT COMES TO “PRESIDENT OBAMA”AND GOV. ROMNEY YOU ALWAYS ADDRESS THE”PRESIDENT”AS “MR.OBAMA” AND NOT “PRESIDENT”, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO ROMNEY YOU ALWAYS ADDRESS HIM AS “GOV.”.MY QUESTION TO YOU IS ,WHATS THE PROBLEM?WHAT I SEE IS THAT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH”MR.PRESIDENT OBAMA”.I KNOW THAT YOU ARE GOING TO COME UP WITH SOME LAME ASS EXCUSE FOR THIS THINKING THAT YOU ARE THAT “SMART”THAT NO ONE WOULD NOTICE ,BUT I DID NOTICE….”SCOTT”..

  Comment by BRIAN DAVIS — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 7:48pm PDT  Reply to this post