"Is terrorism the greatest threat to our country, or a recession? I suggest to you today that the quickest, most direct way to ruin a democracy is to poison the information."
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Scott Pelley, speech at Arizona State University upon receiving the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism award (21 November 2016)
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