Women’s Magazine Pounds Megyn Kelly About Fox News Bias, Palin’s Offenses Against ‘Free Speech’
Via Mediaite, we learn Fox anchor Megyn Kelly granted an interview to the women’s magazine Marie Claire , but her interviewer, Yael Kohen, apparently never watches the media. Even after a huge cover spread and interview in Newsweek magazine, Yael sticks to an old (and false) liberal talking point in playing “gotcha” with Kelly, asking ” I assume you believe in free speech. How do you feel about the fact that Sarah Palin doesn't talk to the press unless it's Fox News?” Earth to Kohen: Palin, a private citizen, exercises free speech in deciding which interview proposals to accept. Kelly strongly suggested the question wasn't factual: “Well, I don't know if the premise of the question is correct, because she has talked to other outlets. I think there are certain outlets she doesn't like. And I think she thinks she's been treated unfairly by people in the press.” But the liberal interviewer persisted that Palin had to submit to liberal-media bombardment: MARIE CLAIRE MAGAZINE: But isn't that part of the job? Isn't that what politicians have to do? KELLY: I suppose so. If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not. But as a journalist, do I want candidates to make themselves available to all of us? Yes, I do. I think it's a good idea. Then Kohen became more direct in her aggression against Fox News: MARIE CLAIRE MAGAZINE: Do you think that ideologues like Glenn Beck have harmed Fox's reputation as a legitimate source of unbiased news? KELLY: If Fox had promoted Glenn Beck as a straight newsman who would be delivering the nightly update, like Bret Baier, then yes. But it was clear from the beginning — and it remains clear — that Glenn Beck is an opinion host. He doesn't report as a journalist and isn't making any attempt to be a journalist. MARIE CLAIRE MAGAZINE: Do you think Fox is biased? KELLY: No. Fox News covers stories that some other news outlets won't cover. We ask some questions that other news outlets wouldn't ask. And sometimes that's perceived as bias by people who've grown up in a world where there are only liberal outlets. No one will find it surprising that this women’s magazine didn’t pound Mika Brzezinski about whether MSNBC was biased when she was interviewed earlier this year. Somehow, it never came up. But they suggested Kelly deserved being meat in Jon Stewart’s satire grinder: MARIE CLAIRE MAGAZINE: He has called you out for being a hypocrite. For example, you challenged a guest who accused your network of using Nazi rhetoric in reference to Democrats. Then Stewart ran clips of your colleagues doing exactly that. Is he taking you out of context, or do you take his point? KELLY: I had never said it didn't happen. My guest asserted that it happened every night on Fox News, and I said, “That's not true.” And then Fox critics put words in my mouth and tried to criticize me for them. Jon Stewart definitely takes [things I say] out of context for humorous effect. And I think he would admit that. But it's really one of those can't-lose situations because every time he mocks me, it increases my visibility and bumps my ratings. So mock away!
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Women’s Magazine Pounds Megyn Kelly About Fox News Bias, Palin’s Offenses Against ‘Free Speech’
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