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Megyn Kelly’s Move to NBC Exposes Everything About the Post-Trump Media

Donc said:
I guess the good news (at least for us) is the first three short words of your post.” I don't think. “:2wave:
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Lol, I guess context is everything.
 
There is something about her that grates on me.

Sure she is easy on the eyes and she is reasonably intelligent...but that is it to me.

She strikes be as shallow, career-obsessed and arrogant.

if she wasn't good looking and a lawyer, none of us would be talking about her because FOX never would have hired her. Average looking, nobody females don't get hired on Fox to work in front of the cameras.
 
In her book, Megan Kelly accused Roger Ailes, CEO of FOX News, of sexually harassing her. FOX has also settled 2 Bill O'Reilly sexual harassment suits. It's evidently part of the culture there.

https://politicalwire.com/2016/11/04/megyn-kelly-accused-roger-ailes-sexual-assault/

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly alleges in her new memoir that Roger Ailes tried to sexually assault her in his office and hinted that she would be fired when she “pushed him away.”

“Kelly claims he started to harass her in the summer of 2005, a few months after she was hired as a legal correspondent in Fox’s Washington bureau. She writes that she was informed by her managing editor that she’d ‘captured the attention of Mr. Ailes’ and she was summoned to the first of a series of meetings in his Manhattan office. ‘Roger began pushing the limits,’ she alleges. ‘There was a pattern to his behavior. I would be called into Roger’s office, he would shut the door, and over the next hour or two, he would engage in a kind of cat-and-mouse game with me.'
 
Donc said:
Looks like the sane news is marching to the peacock station.:2wave:

<She’s smart, funny, and, yes, hot. However, she is far from perfect and I have been critical of the way she manipulated her coverage of Donald Trump to her own career advantage, while withholding potentially vital information from her audience and the public domain until after her was elected president so as to better help her book promotion/sales.>

<First, let’s be clear that this is a promotion for Kelly. She will be making more money and reaching a larger, more diverse audience. However, a big part of why this happened was that a significant portion of the Fox News audience had been “turned off” by her general (though hardly universal) unwillingness to treat Trump as someone who was beyond significant criticism>

<The idea that Megyn Kelly, who is clearly right of center politically, could no longer “fit” at Fox News, despite strong ratings, is a pathetic indictment of how far off the cliff Fox News has drifted now that Sean Hannity and Julian Assange are now suddenly best buddies. It is also a testament to how much the audience of political-oriented media content is now “trained” to expect/accept nothing other than “information” which will act as affirmation for whatever it is that they wanted to believe in the first place.>

<Fox News watchers having a big problem with Kelly (and many of them do), is like fans of an NFL team calling on a member of their local broadcast crew to be fired because they refused to routinely deny when their team was turning the ball over.>

<It appears that Fox News is now taking the approach of a modern music radio station, where almost every program must play the same very limited number of “hit” songs within an extremely focused genre of content. The idea is to make sure that the core audience is never challenged or offended, and that way, especially when there are either enough attractive women, or videos of Trump, on the screen at all times, no one will ever turn them off (until, of course, the aging demographic they are targeting dies off).>

Megyn Kelly’s Move to NBC Exposes Everything About the Post-Trump Media | Mediaite
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Greta was a bigger loss.
 
DA60 said:
There is something about her that grates on me.

Sure she is easy on the eyes and she is reasonably intelligent...but that is it to me.

She strikes be as shallow, career-obsessed and arrogant.

if she wasn't good looking and a lawyer, none of us would be talking about her because FOX never would have hired her. Average looking, nobody females don't get hired on Fox to work in front of the cameras.
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Fox hired Greta Van Susteren who nobody would ever accuse of being anything but average looking.
 
tres borrachos said:
Fox hired Greta Van Susteren who nobody would ever accuse of being anything but average looking.
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No, but she was world famous when they hired her from the O.J. Simpson trial. We was no unknown...quite the opposite.

Megyn Kelly was virtually a nobody before FOX hired her. If she were average looking - no chance whatsoever FOX would have hired her. None.
 
DA60 said:
No, but she was world famous when they hired her from the O.J. Simpson trial. We was no unknown...quite the opposite.

Megyn Kelly was virtually a nobody before FOX hired her. If she were average looking - no chance whatsoever FOX would have hired her. None.
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Megyn Kelly wasn't hired by Fox to have her own show. She covered many big events (SCOTUS hearings, elections) for an ABC affiliate before she was hired by Fox. She worked her way up the ladder in Fox and started out with very small and insignificant gigs. I remember first seeing her well over a dozen years ago. She earned her prize at Fox. She didn't get her first anchor job with them until after she was there for 6 years, and that was a daytime anchor.
 
tres borrachos said:
Megyn Kelly wasn't hired by Fox to have her own show. She covered many big events (SCOTUS hearings, elections) for an ABC affiliate before she was hired by Fox. She worked her way up the ladder in Fox and started out with very small and insignificant gigs. I remember first seeing her well over a dozen years ago. She earned her prize at Fox. She didn't get her first anchor job with them until after she was there for 6 years, and that was a daytime anchor.
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I know that...that is my point.

You think they would have hired her in the first place werI she plain looking? And then do you think she would have climbed the ladder so quickly if she was not easy on the eyes.

At FOX - NO CHANCE.

I am not going to argue with you...she got hired initially because she is good looking and she was a lawyer (in that order). If she gained 50 pounds before she applied to FOX - they would have laughed at her interview once she left.

FOX's demographic is five things - old, generally sexist, generally conservative, generally average to below average IQ, men. A babe who was a lawyer is just perfect for their target audience.

You don't agree - fine.

Good day.
 
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DA60 said:
I know that...that is my point.

You think they would have hired her in the first place werI she plain looking? And then do you think she would have climbed the ladder so quickly if she was not easy on the eyes.

At FOX - NO CHANCE.

I am not going to argue with you...she got hired initially because she is good looking and she was a lawyer (in that order). If she gained 50 pounds before she applied to FOX - they would have laughed at her interview once she left.

You don't agree - whatever.

Good day.
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Yes, because she's a smart articulate woman. Just like Greta is, and Greta didn't climb the ladder at Fox because she's easy on the eyes.

Kelly was a very successful pundit in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She wasn't a nobody to anyone who followed politics. And just like most of them, she got her start at the local affiliate level. I see you're dismissing me, which is your right, but you don't seem to know anything about her history. If it makes you happy running from facts, then please, by all means, do so.
 
DA60 said:
No, but she was world famous when they hired her from the O.J. Simpson trial. We was no unknown...quite the opposite.

Megyn Kelly was virtually a nobody before FOX hired her. If she were average looking - no chance whatsoever FOX would have hired her. None.
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Fox news has a penchant for blondes…if they’re articulate that’s a plus.:2wave:
 
Donc said:
Fox news has a penchant for blondes…if they’re articulate that’s a plus.:2wave:
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If Roger Ailes or Bill O'Riley could lay them, that was also a plus.
 
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