However the blowback on this thing has now reached epic levels.
First off she is under fire from at least on parent of a Sandy Hill shooting victim.
Courtesy of the Washington Post:
NBC’s Megyn Kelly is under fire for her one-on-one interview with Infowars’s Alex Jones.
One of the immediate critics is a mother whose daughter was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, a massacre that Jones has dismissed as a government hoax.
Nelba Márquez-Greene saw the interview, scheduled to air Sunday — Father’s Day — as an “egregious offense” to fathers whose children were murdered Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown, Conn.
“To give Alex Jones a platform on Father’s Day is especially cruel to me,” she told The Washington Post.
Since Jones has claimed that the shooting was fake and no children actually died, one can understand this mother's anger.
Kelly responded to these comments with this tweet:
However that was not good enough for the organizers of the Promise Champions Gala, an event that raises money for the gun violence prevention group the Sandy Hook Promise foundation, who have now dropped Kelly as their host this year.POTUS's been on & praises @RealAlexJones' show. He's giving Infowars a WH press credential. Many don't know him; our job is 2 shine a light. https://t.co/5e88BJyqnz— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 12, 2017
It was also not good enough for JP Morgan who has now pulled their ads from NBC News over this controversy.
This has led others to call for the firing of Megyn Kelly, and the revelation that so far Kelly has been a "ratings disaster" for the network:
“NBC is freaking out,” a source told Radar. “They didn’t pay her $15 million for this. They are now worried that her numbers will be bad when she joins the 9 am hour of Today.”
“If Kelly tanks at 9 am she will also bring down Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb at 10am,” warned the source.
In order to do damage control, producers are scrambling to land Kelly some major “gets” to improve the 46-year-old journalist’s ratings.
Personally I have no idea why NBC and MSNBC keep hiring these Fox News cast offs.
They have zero journalistic integrity and they bring with them years of baggage from their time at Fox News.
I for one will NEVER watch any show that Megyn Kelly hosts, just like I have never watched Greta Van Susteren since her move to MSNBC.Ahead of Megyn Kelly's NBC debut, a reminder of all the awful things she said at Fox News: https://t.co/W0CFlq8Dd4 http://pic.twitter.com/zyqGWLaKiz— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 3, 2017
Call me a snob but I like my journalism to have actual journalism in it.
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