The phrase “a new year, a new me”, holds true for journalist Megyn Kelly, of Fox News. As of Jan. 3, Kelly announced her transition to her new home at NBC where she will be hosting a daily daytime show and a Sunday newsmagazine program. Her last episode for her Fox show, “The Kelly File” aired Jan. 6.
Recently, Kelly has been shamed by Republicans for her vocalized dislike of President-elect Donald Trump. With Fox being solely a conservative programming station, her job at NBC will allow her to broaden her political horizons. And maybe, just maybe, she will not receive such negativity from viewers at NBC.
NBC is certainly more of an open platform to discuss politics without stepping over the line of the Republican agenda of Fox News. In my opinion, Kelly expressing her viewpoint about Trump wasn’t wrong. After all, the First Amendment does grant freedom of speech. Kelly was using her platform to rightfully prompt her views on the election. Not all Republicans supported Trump, the same way not all Democrats supported Clinton.
She has the right to speak up about the previous presidential nominees, just as everyone has the right to freely vocalize their opinions about the 2016 election.
As a journalist, Kelly was more than professional with her outlook on Trump. She didn’t take to tweeting trash about him; merely, she said she did not support him. She was publicly humiliated by him, so of course she’s not going to be supporting Trump 100 percent. Trump expressed his views about Kelly, and she did the same. As a Republican, I fully respected Kelly’s opinions on Trump. As I stated prior, not all Republicans supported Trump as their candidate.
I think because she has been receiving such toxic comments directed at her from Fox viewers, a new platform at NBC may be beneficial for Kelly. NBC will allow her to expand her wings on the topic of politics. Especially since NBC’s viewership has a broader range of perspectives as opposed to Fox. I think NBC is more of an open platform to discuss politics based on the viewership. Fox news is directed towards Republicans while CNN is directed towards Democrats. NBC has never specifically focused on a particular political party. I am not a watcher of NBC, so it’s hard for me to point a finger as to what party NBC is affiliated with, but with the addition of Kelly, the station seems to be more open-minded.
Kelly has made a bold move by taking a job at NBC, but I think it will have a positive effect on her. While she has been a benefactor to Fox, NBC will be lucky to have her on their network.
It will be interesting to see her progression on NBC when she takes her spot at the network. Tucker Carlson is reported to be taking over her time slot at Fox News.
