Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times by Scott Pelley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Really enjoyed this book by the CBS reporter/editor, Scott Pelley. I've always enjoyed Pelley's segments on 60 Minutes and think he is an engaging, incisive, unbiased reporter who is good at asking tough/hard questions. Turns out he's a pretty good writer too. Love the wide spectrum of people & situations/issues he covers in this book of his many years of experience as a journalist, from 9/11 to Elon Musk to the Clintons (focused on deception & lies & lies, untrustworthiness, & serial abuse of women). Pelley makes a great case for the necessity of the freedom of the press & journalists in the sustenance of a democracy--and I like his emphasis on being careful, objective, unbiased, story-driven, and prickly about getting to the truth at the heart of the matter. Get your confirmed sources straight--and beware of Russian bots and fake news generated to be intentionally provocative for the sake of "like" algorithms to generate ad money. Check your sources; don't be sucked in by junk news and one-sided gobbley-gook. Stand up for what is right and do it with excellence. Read on my iPad; borrowed from the library.


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