Posted on 01/13/2017 10:12:27 AM PST by 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.
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William A. Henslee · University of Houston
I kinda liked Megyn Kelly on Fox, but her opinion show began to turn a little left so I don’t care much that she is gone—and I really really enjoy Tucker Carlson more than any interviewer on TV anywhere. For the first tine ever we have a TV host with a sense of humor and self-deprecation who can still drill down to the core of an interview without being offensive. How refreshing.
Is her book on the best seller’s list?
I know, the millions they make are ridiculous.
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