Word: pelley
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...under increased scrutiny as a result of the global recession, however, the Fed chief saw fit to grant the first television interview since his appointment to 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley. The last time a Fed chair gave a television interview was in 1987 when Alan Greenspan appeared on Meet the Press - an interview that was followed the next week by the largest single-day drop in stock market history. So why Bernanke's change of heart? He responded to that question quite plainly: "It's an extraordinary time. This is a chance for me, I think, to talk...
...replace Couric with a woman, but most of the successors floated--Anderson Cooper, Scott Pelley, Harry Smith--are white men. (Diane Sawyer is a possibility, but that would mean going the celebrity-morning-show-host route again.) And CBS executives have speculated that viewers were not "ready" for a woman--maybe because network chiefs believe it, maybe because it's easier to blame society than themselves (while casting themselves as brave pioneers...
...Scott Pelley The 60 Minutes Wednesday correspondent is an ace reporter, but he may have hurt himself with comments to the New YorkObserver that seemed to disparage Roberts...