Posted on 05/20/2016 9:24:07 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Megyn Kelly’s much-publicized broadcast special with Donald Trump was supposed to launch the Fox News star into the stratosphere of television anchordom. Instead, the widely panned show seems to have achieved the opposite result: It exposed the extent of her limited mainstream appeal. Kelly drew just 4.8 million viewers on Tuesday night, a number television executives say is a disappointment by any measure. Three senior executives I spoke with say an audience of 9 million would have been a success. "Not good for her at all," was how one insider put it.
In the days since, Kelly has been working to contain the fallout. She took aim at critics on her cable show Wednesday night by deploying an age-old Fox News tactic: claiming the backlash was a result of liberal media bias. But behind the scenes, she is said to be worried about the response. “She’s very upset with the show reaction, and in hindsight with how it was produced,” one Fox veteran told me.
The stakes for Kelly are high. As the Times recently reported, she’s in the final year of her contract and has been on a media blitz campaigning for a bigger job at Fox or another network. In recent interviews, she’s said her ambition is to be a combination of Oprah, Charlie Rose, and Barbara Walters. The special was essentially a public interview for her next job. But Kelly's chummy treatment of Trump may have damaged her brand as tough and fair-minded (this being Fox, the bar was pretty low). Worse, she cozied up to Trump at the very moment Rupert Murdoch decided Fox News will support the GOP front-runner. By lobbing softballs — or, as Times TV critic James Poniewozik described her questions, "airballs" — at Trump, Kelly came across like any other GOP cheerleader at the right-wing network.
The question for Kelly and her agents at CAA is where to go from here. Before the special, she had maneuvered herself into a position of significant leverage over her boss Roger Ailes and seemed poised to land either a new deal from Fox with a salary in the $25 million range or a plum job at another network. Industry sources said Ailes couldn’t afford to lose Kelly. Now her advantage looks smaller — a turn of events that surely pleases Ailes. According to one Fox insider, Ailes was heard “snickering” in a meeting yesterday when the topic of Kelly’s special came up in conversation. (Ailes's spokesperson Irena Briganti did not respond to a request for comment.)
For their part, Kelly's team doesn't seem eager to talk about the program. When I called her CAA agent Matt DelPiano to ask him about the special, he hung up.
CNN of course.
I’m 70. Alone. Horny and find her attractive. I know where to get a ball gag. Send her to mr!
She cozied up to Trump to use him, then stabbed him in the back the following 2 days.
Her follow-on interview with a transgender was an attempt to appear balanced, but now I’m convinced she’s as unbalanced as they come.
Megyn’s success on Fox so far, is not due to her ability to be a professional journalist ... what she has going for her on Fox, is Hume likes her.. her looks and her spunky attitude endears the men to her. Good looks is always a job enhancer (in the eyes of the beholder). Professionalism has gone by the wayside.
I can’t stand many on Fox any more, since they began insulting Trump’s voters. Hume, Baier, megyn, some contributors and some of the others.. all showed they are not nice people. Much like the rest of the media... haughty, self absorbed, agenda oriented, who live in their self made bubble.
Buy a pole
“And the skies are clear over Wichita, with highs tomorrow in the upper 70s. Back to you, Steve.”
“Thanks, Megyn.”
Yes. No bias there at all.
Probably sees “no problem” with 15 lberal women promoting (er, “covering”) Hillary coronation by the national media by ignoring EVERY one of her scandals and bribery channels, while they send 20 reporters digging in Trumps trash cans to uncover coffee grounds. Old interviews from 20 years ago. And then distort the interviews they do get.
Yeah. No bias at all. Lots of pure hatred, but no bias in Hillary’s media.
The stakes for Kelly are high...were high, Megan was “Casey at the bat”.
Late night Shamwow infomercials?
I don’t watch Fox News, but do see ads for her show and have over time. For me, the new look is a major turnoff. In some respects it makes her look masculine; a bull dyke. In another way, it makes her look sinister; someone who should not be trusted. Either way you look at it, the look is going to hurt her ratings IMO.
Would also add, I will be surprised if her contract is renewed, let alone be the rainmaker I am sure she was looking for. She is going to need to grow her hair back out, become feminine again and rebuild her brand.
Pole dancing.
Replace with Andrea Tantaros
The bull-dyke look was probably just to make her look like she has a brain instead of just being a toy for rich older men (after a close-up someone posted a few weeks back, I don’t think young men would be interested; she looked “worn”).
I was gonna say porn ....
Maybe Paula Zahn could put in a good word for her at ID Network.
I despise the picture of her in the chair. It looks like she is flatulating.
Honestly I do not find her or those pictures attractive, it is like what she is doing @ Faux, she is trying too hard...
Kelly was in a no win situation. She got low ratings because of her bias towards Trump for the past 6 months. Trump supporters basically have boycotted her. And the liberal critics panned her performance for not continuing to trash him. Lol.
I agree. Fox has lost viewers since the old man turned the station over to the two sons. First thing we saw after that mid summer deal was the shock of the first three questions of the debate. I watch OAN now.
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