Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of our Times

Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of our Times by Scott Pelley  424 pp. Audiobook read by the author.

Anchor and Managing Editor of the CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley reflects on his life, his career, and the monumental events that shaped that career up to and including the 2016 Presidential Election. Besides his time in Iraq and Afghanistan covering the wars, the most riveting experience was his time on the ground at the World Trade Center on 9/11. The book is not just about him but mostly about the people directly involved in those events. Pelley also makes a strong case for the search for truth that good journalists do and should be doing in these days of "news as propaganda". Scott Pelley is one of the few who tries to uphold the standards of "The Most Trusted Man in America" Walter Cronkite by refusing to air a story until there are at least two verifiable sources, rather than rushing to get a story on the air with sketchy provenance. The book ends with a "lecture" to aspiring journalists about what they should endeavor to accomplish with their careers and a list of CBS correspondents, camera & sound men, and directors who have been killed in the line of duty.