Scott Pelley,

Scott Pelley is an experienced and award-winning journalist who has been reporting for 60 Minutes since 2004. He has covered wars in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Sudan and interviewed U.S presidents from George H.W. Bush to President Biden.

Biography:  https://www.cbsnews.com/team/scott-pelley/

72%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • Russia nexus
  • U.S officials being attacked by Russia

Conflicts of Interest

50%

Examples:

  • Edgreen ran the Pentagon investigation into anomalous health incidents
  • Greg Edgreen said the bar for proof was set so high because the country doesn't want to face some very hard truths

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • Evidence of attacks two years earlier in Frankfurt, Germany
  • White House staff...CIA officers...FBI agents and military officers and their families are among those who believe they were wounded by a secret weapon

Deceptions

80%

Examples:

  • The article claims that a 2023 government report deemed it "very unlikely" that a foreign adversary was behind the mysterious brain injuries
  • The article claims that victims are frustrated

Recent Articles

New Evidence Links Havana Syndrome to Russia's GRU Unit 29155

New Evidence Links Havana Syndrome to Russia's GRU Unit 29155

Broke On: Monday, 01 April 2024 A joint investigation by CBS News, The Insider and Der Spiegel has linked Havana Syndrome to Russia's GRU Unit 29155. White House staff, CIA officers, FBI agents, military officers and their families have reported being wounded by a secret weapon firing high-energy beams of microwaves or ultrasound. The investigation was led by Greg Edgreen who believes U.S officials are being attacked by Russia and that the official threshold to prove it was set impossibly high.