Accuracy in Media

Scott Pelley, who couldn’t lift the CBS Evening News out of its perennial third-place ratings finish, is being replaced, according to news reports. Pelley, who has been with CBS since 1989, will remain with the network as a full-time correspondent for “60 Minutes.” CBS is expected to make an official announcement this week and will reportedly […]

Hillary Clinton isn’t considered trustworthy to a large majority of voters, and her interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley on Thursday isn’t likely to help convince voters that she is: Pelley: You know in ‘76 Jimmy Carter famously said, “I will not lie to you.” Clinton: Well, I have to tell you, I […]

Last week at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch media conference, CBS CEO Les Moonves showed that the harsh feelings towards the now departed Katie Couric haven’t dissipated after a little more than a year. Moonves briefly touched on the situation at CBS News during his talk. “The status of CBS News right now is […]

My how time flies! Wednesday marked the one-year anniversary of Scott Pelley’s first broadcast as the anchor of the CBS Evening News. He marked the occasion by telling the Associated Press’s David Bauder that he thought that the broadcast could topple NBC in the ratings. “I’ve got a lot of confidence that we’re going to […]

Speaking at the Television Critics Association press tour, CBS News chairman Jeff Fager showed that he is a master of understatement when he told the group that “I think we did lose some viewers in recent years” in referring to Katie Couric’s tenure at the network. CBS lost “some” viewers alright, about 600,000 in the […]

News anchors for the three major broadcast news networks, which have been losing viewers for years, may be missing an opportunity to engage their audience by failing to take advantage of using social media. A quick look at the Twitter accounts of the anchors shows that while they all have Twitter accounts they don’t use […]

Last week Scott Pelley made his much anticipated debut behind the anchor desk replacing the now departed Katie Couric, but the ratings came in below expectations. While Pelley managed to attract the same total audience numbers as Couric at 5.7 million, he fell far short in the key A25-54 demographic with just 1.3 million versus […]

Howard Kurtz reports that Katie Couric will be gone from CBS when her contract expires in June and that 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley is a leading contender to replace her. The 60 Minutes correspondent has long been a favorite of Fager, who doubles as the show’s executive producer. But with Fager taking a methodical […]