Scott Pelley Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:48.5 | but we're not going to be talking about that. We're going to be talking about Scott Pelly |
| 0:51.7 | and his commencement address at Wake Forest University. |
| 0:55.3 | And a few other tangentially related items about institutions under attack by the Trump administration. |
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| 1:08.6 | All right, Lauren, you start. |
| 1:10.8 | Scott Pelley, Wake Forest, |
| 1:11.9 | gives this kind of impassioned speech. It doesn't actually mention Trump by name, but it's obviously |
| 1:17.2 | about Trump. So, yeah, it's pretty clear. I don't know. I grew up watching Scott Pelley. And to me, |
| 1:23.8 | he's just always like this super like, you know, even-handed, like even-toned reporter. |
| 1:30.2 | And that was a pretty, he doesn't mention Trump by name, but it's, it's really clear what he's saying. |
| 1:35.0 | It's really obvious. |
| 1:36.2 | And he's not someone who sort of like overstates things or sensationalizes things. |
| 1:41.7 | And that's like his whole reputation as a journalist. So I found this |
| 1:47.7 | speech to be pretty interesting because he's someone when he's sort of raising the alarm bell like |
| 1:52.1 | that and saying our institutions, journalism, academics, like everything's under attack. |
| 1:58.2 | Like my ears perk up when it's coming from him. For sure. Why don't we listen to what |
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