THE TRUTH BEHIND MEGYN KELLY’S NBC DEAL (Compared to "All About Eve" Harrington)

Newsweek ^ | January 10, 2017 | MICHAEL WOLFF

[PJ-Comix]

The Megyn Kelly story is about best laid plans going awry—ironically awry.

She bargained to be the biggest voice of the dominant news channel in America — and, as well, the best paid on-air personality in the history of television news. Instead, she’s become merely a contender among the knives-out egos in the contested (and ever dwindling) territory of network news—and at a steep discount to the brass-ring salary she might have had.

The Murdochs, father and sons, thought Kelly was going to be their way of cleansing Fox of Roger Ailes and his brand of diss-the-elites conservatism—and of letting them, after 20 years of Ailes’s control, set their powerful network’s agenda. Instead, the network, even without Ailes, now seems ever-more in the Ailes mold.

[PJ-Comix]

There is at any given time in the television news business invariably one person more mistrusted and reviled by all the other mistrusted and reviled people in the business. This is what’s called the Eve Harrington Syndrome, after the amoral and unscrupulous showbiz heroine in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1950 film All About Eve (the syndrome, of course, is not gender specific). At Fox, for star colleagues down to make-up artists and, seemingly, by common agreement throughout the television news business, Megyn Kelly is the era’s most hardcore Eve Harrington case—soulless, heartless, shameless, avaricious, etc. When Trump picked a fight with Kelly after the first Republican primary debate in August 2015, he cannily singled out a target who colleagues might hesitate to rally around. Indeed, he succeeded in splitting allegiances at the network—with many of her colleagues believing she had unfairly grandstanded in that debate. (“You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals….”)

...For Megyn Kelly, at a price one person familiar with the negotiations put at $17 million-$18 million (practically speaking it would be hard for NBC to let anyone exceed Today show star Matt Lauer’s recent raise to $20 million), there was a prospective daytime show, with few models of success; a Sunday evening show, typically a loss leader; and a possible move for the hard-news Kelly into the soft hour of Today’ s 9 a.m. hour. Some observers see her inevitable destination as MSNBC—from the top-rated news network to the lowest.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! She took a yuuuuge pay cut to possibly end up at MSNBC along with Brian Williams. No wonder Me-Again looked so pained on Election Night when Trump won.

[Grampa Dave]

Karma and reality versus MeAgain’s dreams of power!

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

most interesting part of the article was that Greta signed on with MSNBC.

I hadn’t heard that as of yet.

[mass55th]

She has nobody to blame but herself. The beyotch did herself in.

[WKUHilltopper]

LOL!! Only Newsweak would think Mega Smelly is worth an article.

[WKUHilltopper]

“most interesting part of the article was that Greta signed on with MSNBC.

I hadn’t heard that as of yet.”

I saw her on last night flipping thru the channels. Basically just said “wtf” and kept flipping.

[llevrok]

note to MeAgain -Life can be a cruel teacher. Enjoy your 15 minutes of new car smell at (p)MSNBC

[Enterprise]

As other have written, had Kelly asked Trump questions about the economy, Obamacare, trade, immigration, terrorism, or national security, she would have elevated herself in the opinion of the public. Instead, she shot herself in her whatever, and lowered herself to the floor slop level of journalism.

Megyn: How come you're mean to women Trump? Nice Megyn, nice. Enjoy your obscurity now.

[Cecily]

“When Trump picked a fight with Kelly”

I thought it was the other way around - Me-Again picked a fight with Trump, and he hit back.

[Steely Tom]

She fought the Trump and the Trump won.

[PJ-Comix]

She asked the debate question that KILLED her career.

[ColdOne]

Trump=1
Meagain=0

LOL.

[proust]

fakes news rides again.

[dangerdoc]

That was the first Newsweek article that I have read in ages.

[Geronimo]

In a couple of years she will be giving viewers a tour of her shoe closet...another daytime tabloid talk show bimbo...massive fail Meagain...

[HarleyLady27]

“When Trump picked a fight with Kelly”

Yep, ‘fake news’ rides again!!!

[rdl6989]

The only place I ever see Newsweek or Time is in my doctor’s waiting room.

[V K Lee]

It could be said: the best MAN won.
Murdock and sons w/o Ailes will soon wither on the vine.

BO’B has always considered them a non news organization. They’ve proven that to be so.

MK = just a fly speck in history.

[chopperman]

...Instead, she’s become merely a contender among the knives-out egos in the contested (and ever dwindling) territory of network propaganda news...

Fixed it.

[pfflier]

She took her shot and missed. Another LSM type that thought Trump was an easy target and would lose the election anyway. Her plan was to endear herself to the winners. Ooops.