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Megyn Kelly Slams NBC News on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ for Matt Lauer Investigation, Harvey Weinstein Coverage

posted 5 years ago by Satan2016 (26200)
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She wants to be on TV again. NBC and CNN are out of the question. Who's left?

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/megyn-kelly-tucker-carlson-tonight-nbc-news-1203373630/

In Megyn Kelly’s first televised interview since exiting NBC, the former Fox News and NBC News anchor took to “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday evening to criticize NBC News management for its handling of the outlet’s Harvey Weinstein coverage and internal Matt Lauer investigation.

She pointed to Fox News, CBS News, NPR and the NFL and other organizations that had hired third-party investigators to aid in probes, and criticized NBC News leaders Andy Lack and Noah Oppenheim, who have come under fire in recent days in the wake of Farrow’s book.

“If these are the people overseeing the investigation into NBC — they had Kim Harris, the general counsel, do the investigation — then how are people supposed to trust it? That’s why you’ve got to get somebody on the outside.”

[–] TMC-4 (20491) 5 years ago

Some of Megyn Kelly's "fundamental charisma seemed gone" in her return to TV after a year

https://variety.com/2019/tv/columns/megyn-kelly-fox-news-tucker-carlson-interview-1203373884/

Kelly's apperance on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight last night was a "meandering comeback bid," says Daniel D'Addario. "Kelly, a star on Fox whose NBC morning hour failed to suit her prosecutorial zeal, ought to know how to do this," says D'Addario. "Interviewed by a host as fundamentally congenial to his ideological allies as Tucker Carlson, Kelly was presented softball after softball about NBC’s mishandling of the Harvey Weinstein story — a story recounted in Ronan Farrow’s new book that happened to be unfolding while Kelly, who’d previously been near the center of the Roger Ailes sexual harassment inquiry, was in the building. And yet she was at times uncharacteristically tongue-tied. Speaking with care about an employer from whom she’d had a contentious split (saying, for instance, that 'the question is open as to whether they put dollars ahead of decency'), Kelly seemed to be stopping short; in issuing a terse 'no comment' to a provocative question implying she’d been let go from NBC for being outspoken, she made herself clear."