Megyn Kelly Leaves FOX News For NBC, Rejecting $20 Million + Annual Pay Offer To Stay
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Megyn Kelly Is Leaving Fox News for NBC The New York Times
One of Fox News biggest stars Megyn Kelly was been wooed to NBC News by chairman Andrew Lack. Kelly's contract is said to be the biggest negotiation since Katie Couric moved to CBS News in 2006. The move is potentially crushing for Fox, with Kelly being the second-most watched host -- after Bill O'Reilly-- and comes after the recent departure of founding chairman Roger Ailes, who was ousted by Fox owners -- the Rupert Murdoch family -- after serious allegations of extreme sexual harassment by Ailes over decades.
The Murdoch family had offered Kelly over $20 million a year to stay at the network, an amount NBC said they could not match. Kelly responded that money was not her key issue, given the problems at Fox and also the contentious relationship between Megyn Kelly and president-elect Donald Trump.
Kelly will broadcast a Monday through Friday news show, a Sunday evening in-depth show (thankfully Madame Secretary has moved to 10 pm) and participate in all major political programming and big-evemt coverage at NBC.
Should 'Morning Joe' Get A Stiffer Lip? You Loved Trump Calling In Every Day
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'Morning Joe' host Joe Scarborough and his sidekick Mika Brzezinski were miffed over accusations that they "partied with Trump" at Mar-a-Lago on New Year's Eve. The show led the way in the rise of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate, turning their show over to Trump on a nearly daily basis.
“Partied? You’re very good at pushing fake news," Scarborough knifed back to Sopan Deb, a former CBS reporter now at the Times. "You should write for CNN. Apparently making up facts is fine if you’re writing about us,” he replied, before launching into an explanation for why he was at Trump’s Palm Beach report. (He and his co-host, Mika Brzezinski, were trying to score an interview with the president-elect, he said, and this was the meeting time Trump gave them.) “One of the more entertaining aspects of media coverage of media is how so many who blast Trump for half truths attack us with half truths.”
Soon afterward, Scarborough’s NBC colleague Chuck Todd tweeted his own take on the Twitter tiff: “It really stinks to watch others continue help ruin the reputation of your industry. But fighting each other ...only hurts the democracy.” Scarborough issued a followup: “Yes. I find that people misrepresenting others and lying is indeed corrosive. I know you agree with me that facts matter,” he wrote.
Scarborough followed with an op-ed titled 'The Media's hypocrisy and hyperventilating in the age of Trump' for The Washington Post and an hour-long interview on CNN Money. Clearly the duo is hyper sensitive about accusations that they are in Trump's camp.
Sara Grace Wallerstedt Hang With 'Birds' In Ben Toms Images For Vogue China February 2017
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Model Sara Grace Wallerstedt fronts 'Birds', styled by Robbie Spencer. Photographer Ben Toms flashes the fashion flock for Vogue China February 2017./ Hair by Mari Ohashi; makeup by Gemma Smith-Edhouse
Alasdair McLellan Eyes Ellen, Irina, Stella & Vittoria In 'A La Mode' For W Magazine February 2017
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Model quartet Ellen Rosa, Irina Shayk, Stella Maxwell and Vittoria Ceretti take Paris in 'A La Mode', styled by Edward Enninful. Photographer Alasdair McLellan flashes the beauties forW Magazine February 2017./ Hair by Anthony Turner; makeup by Lynsey Alexander
