I’m a longtime CBS News-watcher, and enjoyed Katie Couric’s tenure as anchor of The CBS Evening News. Yet I’m also quite pleased that with Couric’s departure, Scott Pelley has taken her place.
Pelley is a fine reporter and anchor, and I very much enjoyed his debut broadcast, on Monday. He is straightforward, serious, and likeable.
Here are two examples of Pelley’s excellent reporting; both reports were featured on 60 Minutes.
The first piece, from May 1, 2011, is an interview with another terrific reporter, Lara Logan—who describes, very courageously, how she was brutally sexually assaulted and beaten by a mob in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, following the resignation of Hosni Mubarak.
The second report is a superb piece about children experiencing homelessness in America. It aired on March 6, 2011.
