Megyn Kelly Is Said to Be Leaving Fox News for NBC

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Update: Here’s Who’s Replacing Megyn Kelly
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Megyn Kelly announced her departure from Fox News on Monday night, saying on The Kelly File that she’s pleased to join “the journalists at NBC … who I greatly admire.” (Hey, how do Fox News fans feel about that ringing endorsement for the corporate home of Rachel Maddow and Matt Lauer — a place Fox spends so much time deriding?) And on Thursday morning, the channel announced her replacement: Tucker Carlson, the Prince of Preppiness, whose 7 p.m. ambush-o-rama, Tucker Carlson Tonight, has been an immediate attention-grabber since it started in November.


Megyn Kelly Announces Departure From Fox News

On Tuesday’s Kelly File, Megyn Kelly announced that she will be leaving Fox News at the end of the week. The long-time anchor started off by saying, “After more than a dozen years at Fox News, I decided to pursue a new challenge.” Megyn said it was a difficult decision because she loved the show, her fellow Fox employees, and the people who tune in every night, adding, “even those who very rarely complain on Twitter about our coverage after a show or a presidential debate.” Megyn will be joining the NBC News team, where she will be hosting a daytime show, a Sunday night news magazine show, and joining the coverage of major political events. The Kelly File host said that she is looking forward to working at NBC, while showing love for the network that has been her home for over a decade, saying, “I am deeply thankful to Fox News for the wonderful 12 years I have had here. I have grown up here, and have been given every chance a young reporter could ask for.”
Common consensus was that Fox was looking for an in-house woman to occupy Kelly’s spot in primetime. New York magazine’s Fox News swami, Gabriel Sherman, listed the obvious candidates: Trish Regan, Martha MacCallum, Shannon Bream, and Sandra Smith. My thinking was, who’s to say Fox News really, really wanted a woman in that time period? Other channels pay fealty to the idea of diversity; Fox does not. Fox barely shed a tear when Greta Van Susteren left, to be immediately replaced by Carlson. Plugging Carlson into Kelly’s time slot is a fast, easy fix. As I wrote in December, Carlson is “the exact opposite of a self-styled working-class brawler like Bill O’Reilly, which actually makes them excellent time-period companions.”

Carlson’s show quickly established its tone and tenor: At the top of every program, Carlson proclaims that his hour is “the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink.” He then gets a guest on camera with whom he’s sure to disagree, and debates, interrupts, contradicts, and bullies him or her into submission. Much of the time, he can leave a Fox viewer thinking he’s bested his opponent. But sometimes it doesn’t fare too well for Carlson, as when he tried to ridicule Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca for her criticisms of Donald Trump and found his condescension turned back on him:


I can’t help but think Fox News has missed an opportunity here to do something different. My neighbor Mark, a close watcher of Fox News, posited what I thought was a shrewd programming idea: Move The Five to primetime. The Five started out as a bookmark show, something Roger Ailes devised to throw on the air as a replacement for The Glenn Beck Implosion or whatever they were calling it. The show took off in the ratings; its cacophony of voices and weird personality mix — Greg Gutfeld, Dana Perino, Eric Bolling, Juan Williams, and Kimberly Guilfoyle — appealed to the channel’s viewers (although the show was better — odder, more unpredictable — when Bob Beckel was its grumpy liberal voice). The Five would have been an excellent solution to Fox’s Kelly dilemma, and the multiple-host format a novelty for primetime viewers.


My second replacement idea was riskier, but in keeping with Fox News’s roots as a maverick operation that makes TV stars rather than recycling in-house candidates: Tomi Lahren. You know, the machine-gun-mouthed alt-righter who charmed Trevor Noah and reduced Bill O’Reilly to polite silence in the space of a single week just last month. She fit the Fox bill, from the top of her blond head to the bottom of her unhinged lower jaw. I think just about every opinion Lahren holds is repulsive, but she would have drawn ratings for the network.


It’s being reported that Fox is giving the 7 p.m. slot to America’s Newsroom co-host Martha MacCallum. The Kelly replacement was the first major test for Fox News after the departure of its guru and (alleged) sexual harasser in chief, Roger Ailes: To lure as many viewers as Kelly racked up, Fox had the opportunity to do something different, and different is something I’m not sure it knows how to do anymore, without Ailes.

Megyn Kelly’s last day at Fox News will be Jan. 6. Tucker Carlson Tonight airs weeknights at 7 p.m. on Fox News.

 

The market dictates value. Any over compensation effects only the people who paid the amount.

I can see an anchor who brings 10 million viewers with them being worth a lot.

The odd thing with this deal is her value is dropping.

But I think a lot of people will be swinging back and forth as Zionists and globalists clean house of one another.

 

Yes there is and I dont get all my news from one source. The straight news on FOX is pretty unbiased

 

Oh, spare us. His post had zero anger in it. Insults? What insults? Would you like to explain why you gave passes to all the "righties" insults?

 

And I suppose all the ugly opinions voiced about any other network are okay?

Jesus.
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Are you for real? All they have to do is tell the truth, what journalism is supposed to be, instead of being megaphones for propaganda.

But keep pushing the, "you should treat them with respect anyway" line. I'm sure it will all work out. lol

 

I'll give you $5 if you can point out where I said anyeffingthing about respect FOR EITHER..... all I asked was why it's okay to (*)(*)(*)(*) on his OPINION while giving others a free pass.

 

I see what you're saying. I read it wrong. My bad.

 

I'm talking about the ratings. His opinion is in direct contrast to reality.

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No, he stated his opinion about Sux News and you jumped on his OPINION... saying it didn't count. Everyone's OPINIONS count. That wasn't cool.

 

Contradiction in terms.

 

What is wrong with you? Their personal opinion flies in the face of the ratings.

Read what you quoted for God's sake: being as one of the most laughable networks in television history

Pointing out the ratings domination proves their opinion of it being "one of the most laughable networks in history" is the laughable part. That was the point. How do you keep missing the obvious?

 

BLASPHEMY!!!

 

Lolololol.... Even worse: I think only the first three are worth anything. Now whut?

 

Regardless: you can't prove an OPINION wrong. It's an OPINION.
o·pin·ion
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noun
a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
"I'm writing to voice my opinion on an issue of great importance"

(Im only rude to those that act like jackasses. You're always rude.)

 

LOL Yes you can. I have heard quite a few ridiculous defenses but claiming an opinion can't be proven wrong is in the top 3.

So if I said the sky is purple, I can't be proven wrong? Do you even hear how you sound right now?

Next time think through and read the entire exchange before you jump in. Save the embarrassment.

 

Whatever dude. Apparently you NEED to have the last word, whereas I am content to let you keep being rude.

 

Go ahead and pretend to take the high ground if you like. The reality is an opinion can and was proven wrong. No one forced you to make your statements so don't complain when they are proven laughably wrong.

 

While I agree with your underlying premise that opinions can be and often are flat wrong... a yellow green color blind person would be correct that the sky is purple, because they see the world differently than you or I, which is actually a brilliant metaphor illustrating her point... which is wrong... in my opinion.

 

Fair enough but in this case there was no color blindness and I was thinking of myself as a human when I made that claim

But claiming Fox News is the most laughable news source when they just won another ratings award and have for almost 2 decades is not only wrong its dead wrong.

 

Jerry Springer is popular too.
It also consistently polls as having the least informed viewership...
I think that applies to both.

It is also true that the average IQ is 100, which is a slim 30 above retarded... I could go on...

 

Heeeeeeeeeey! You're 'sposed to ALWAYS (and maybe forever.. I haven't decided yet) agree with me, and back me up, and bow and scrape and other good (*)(*)(*)(*)...TO ME!!! :*)

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Like this. I guess. Sorta.

 

But... I did... It was terribly clever... because if I suggest opinions can and usually are wrong, it means you being wrong in my opinion, quite probably makes you right... assuming I am. I love logic knots.

 

Not with YOUR backwards opinion on the Star Wars Franchise we're not!

 

But but but.... The first original 3 are, like, cool and (*)(*)(*)(*) and and and should be copied in gold! And and and iffen I could go back in time I'd name my kids Luke, Han, Leia, and Chewy.

(Better?)