Posted on 08/28/2015 3:14:18 AM PDT by markomalley
Author Gabriel Sherman went on with Steve Malzberg on NewsMax TV Thursday.
Sherman wrote The Loudest Voice in the Room in 2014 on FOX News President Roger Ailes. Today he told Malzberg that Megyn Kelly wants to go mainstream and is keeping her options open.
From the interview:
Gabriel Sherman: In the days after the debate all of the emails and messages that FOX News was getting from their viewers were pro-Trump emails. Roger Ailes and his executives at FOX were shocked at the volume of the response. And, they really didn’t know what to do because their audience loves Trump. And yet FOX by all measures really hammered him. So they were sort of treating him with kid gloves until this interview when he came forward and questioned her vacation. That’s when they released a statement and compared him to conspiracy theories… Roger Ailes has never really faced an adversary like Donald Trump. Donald Trump doesn’t play by his rules so Ailes does not know what to do. This week he decided to come out and hit him…
Steve Malzberg: You also talk about in this piece the conspiracy theories that this is all setting up down the road the big Megyn Kelly – Donald Trump sit-down. And this is somehow being, if not coordinated, discussed by Ailes and Trump… Why is Megyn Kelly not firing back at this point?
Gabriel Sherman: Well, she, up until this point, was the fastest rising star at FOX News. She was really becoming the face of the network. And, I don’t think she wants to get down in the weeds and the gutter and play this kind of hardball politics.
Steve Malzberg: Because she’ll lose.
Gabriel Sherman: Or, she wants to, part of this is she wants to go mainstream. There was some talk before her most recent contract that she was flirting with CNN to kind of jump from FOX to CNN. And, I think she wants to leave all options on the table. If she gets down in the weeds and slugs it out with Trump that will hurt her brand.
Via NewsMax TV:
(video at link)
Hey Meghan....might want to talk to Katy Couric first.
Great. I. Sure she’ll be far more comfortable there.
Alison Camesomething went to CNN.
I've posted this before, but with no response: As I recall, the OJ Simpson civil trial verdict was announced by a court officer holding up, against a window, a pad with the verdict written on it and the reporters were scrambling to get to it. Baier was frantically trying to see the verdict, but wasn't able to do so and was screaming something like, "What's the verdict, what's the verdict?" I found it very amusing at the time.
I only watch CNN at airports and foreign hotels.
To go mainstream, she will need more female viewers, which means being more like Carol Costello. Her reaction to the Ashley Madison hack is all wrong, she is snarky and condescending to Christians, sorry but nobody is going to choose to get their news from “the enemy”.
Megyn dear....you intellectually over rated diva you.....you can run, but you can’t hide.....Trump is not the first to embarrass you......remember getting schooled here: you know, you were so snotty, so arrogant, so sure you had Newt on the ropes...and them BAM BOOM BIFF - you were done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLQebqVQKcc
Put your big girl panties on Megyn. We are watching OAN Network now. They actually report new with no BS. so long Fox.
“Alison Camesomething went to CNN”
I don’t believe by choice, her contract wasn’t renewed by Fox.
Mainstream as in porn? LMAO.
After a blood transfusion, Machinegun Kelly is re-trenching to go full Marxist with the “war on women” meme?
I heard she was hoping to get the show that creepy Carlson (?) woman got instead.
It takes about 5 minutes for CNN to make my blood boil.
MeKel ~ leaving FOX?
She should go to Univision. Her and Jorge would make a good team. The Two Amigos.
I flip around, they ALL make my blood boil.
Will someone please contact me if she leaves.
(otherwise I won’t know) Then I can return to Fox. Maybe.
I used to like her, but now consider her an idiot. What a massive disappointment she turned out to be.
Believe it or not, CNN International is even worse but it beats Arab language news for me.
Meghan used guests to attack Trump when she returned from vacay. Trump didn’t just send those tweets for the Hell of it. HE WAS ATTACKED. If you go after him best be prepared to take return fire. Otherwise leave the man alone
I thought FOX was the leader in ratings.
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