Top CBS News anchor Scott Pelley delivered a tongue-lashing to fellow journalists on Friday, urging them to worry less about the "vanity" of being first on a story and more about being right.

"This has been a bad few months for journalism," Pelley said. "We're getting the big stories wrong over and over again."

The "CBS Evening News" anchor made the criticism while accepting a journalism award named for broadcast executive Fred Friendly from Quinnipiac University. He didn't exempt himself, noting that during early reporting of the Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre last December he mistakenly reported that shooter Adam Lanza's mother was a teacher in the school.

Media organizations were roundly criticized for falsely reporting an arrest of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect two days after the April 15 attack. Stories and pictures spread quickly on social media websites erroneously suggesting some people on the scene were suspects, and the images were used by some news organizations.

"In a world where everybody is a publisher, no one is an editor," Pelley said, "and we've arrived at the point today."

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit are "not journalism," he said. "That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip."

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Are some of the journalists realizing they have a soul?

I am wondering if between the fact that their crsibilty is shot and their ratings are slowly dying off has the MSM genuinely concerned about the future. Pelley isn't the first old timer to make a stink about the Lamestreams failure. Brokaw got roasted for doing the same thing a couple weeks ago.