“ELEVEN WORDS. AND THE GRADUATES STOPPED SMILING.”
Scott Pelley’s Commencement Address at Wake Forest Began With Applause — But His Final Warning About Fear and Control Chilling America’s Classrooms Left the Arena Silent, and CBS Quietly Cut the Replay.
It was supposed to be tradition: caps, gowns, and safe nostalgia. Instead, Scott Pelley lowered his voice and told the new graduates something they were never meant to hear at a ceremony — that the greatest threat they’d face wasn’t outside the gates, but creeping into their own institutions. He named them one by one: the press, the universities, even the law schools. The room froze. The cameras caught parents shifting uneasily, students glancing at each other, as if realizing this was no longer a celebration but a reckoning. Hours later, the official CBS feed was missing the very sentence that had turned the mood. And the question followed every graduate into the night: why erase the warning if it wasn’t true?
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