Megyn Kelly Expected to End NBC Morning Show

[brooklynite]

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Source: Hollywood Reporter

Megyn Kelly is expected to wind down her 9 a.m. Today show hour by the end of the season, a source close to the situation tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Sources tell THR that Kelly has met with network executives in recent weeks to discuss the future of the show and expressed a desire to cover more news and politics. It's unclear what NBC News would put in place of Kelly's show. But the discussions are at least an acknowledgement that the experiment is not working and that Kelly would prefer to be covering more news as she did with the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.

Kelly has grappled with hard-news topics, including the #MeToo allegations against a series of powerful men. But her show is in a typically soft daypart, and she has often seemed to chafe at the lighter requirements of the job. Kelly met with NBC News chairman Andy Lack well before the controversy over her recent blackface comments erupted. But her clumsy comments about blackface on Tuesday's Megyn Kelly Today — for which she apologized — have only exacerbated the situation.

The backlash was immediate. And the controversy was covered in segments on the NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt on Tuesday evening and also Wednesday morning on the flagship edition of Today. On NBC's Today, Craig Melvin characterized her comments - in which she posited that it was acceptable to dress in blackface for Halloween if one were in character as a black person - "racist and ignorant." Al Roker said that Kelly “owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country.” He reiterated the remarks on Twitter.


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[bearsfootball516]

1. Good. She has no business having a show.

[RainCaster]

2. I know a day care that is hiring

[keithbvadu2]

10. At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? He likes blonds.

At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave?

He likes blonds.

[RainCaster]

29. She would have to change a lot of diapers at that address

Tiny hands mushroom peepee Dick-tater

[Haggis for Breakfast]

22. I hear there are about 15 openings in the Saudi government.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. What's odd is it took as long as it did to get Megyn KKKelly off the air...

guess better late than never.

[hatrack]

4. Womp womp!

[Wellstone ruled]

5. She got a 25 million pay day out of it.

[miss-nasty]

6. Yes, MAGA-N Kelly!

You are the weakest link!! Bye, Felecia!!!

[Rebl2]

7. Doesn't sound

like she wants to leave NBC. She wants to do political news and news in general. I think she is angling for a show on MSNBC. I say fire her NOW!!!

[Marie Marie]

12. That is what I am thinking. Oh please - NO!!!!

[Sherman A1]

34. Agreed

She needs to be fired and yesterday.

[Bradshaw3]

8. Says she wants to do more news and politics

Wish she would keep her show if they are going to stick her on NBC or MSNBC. Everybody should just admit it was a mistake, swallow their pride (and the company's payout) and move on.

[JI7]

9. i would rather have her do some crappy daytime show than bring her into

real news coverage.

[mitch96]

20. "do some crappy daytime show"

Yup, have her do some puff piece for 1/2 hr so she gets so board she quits....
m

[keithbvadu2]

11. Is she going to take white Jesus and white Santa with her?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

21. white jesus and white santa

[DURHAM D]

13. The last thing this country needs is her doing regular news.

NBC should sell her to RT.

[Va Lefty]

14. Just what we need, Megan Kelly covering "more news and politics"

If in the year 2018 she is surprised that "black face" is offensive to some, she is the last person we need covering news and politics.

[Izzy Blue]

15. The cast of "House of Cards" cancelled being on her show next week.

Adding insult to injury she said she "learned something".

imo, That says volumes just how uncaring and insensitive she is to Black history or taking it a step further her racist veil may have slipped.


"The host reiterated that apology on air Wednesday at the top of her show, and went on to host a panel of speakers discussing the blackface issue. "I want to begin with two words: I’m sorry," said Kelly at the top of Wednesday's hour. "I was wrong, and I am sorry. One of the great parts of sitting in this chair is getting to discuss different points of view. Sometimes I talk and sometimes I listen, and yesterday I learned. I learned given the history of blackface being used in awful ways by racists in this country, it is not OK for that to be part of any costume, Halloween or otherwise."

[turbinetree]

16. Good Riddance....................you and your former FOX network created the shit

happening in New Zealand , here , Britain, you name it....................your right wing nationalist Bullshit..................

[SummerSnow]

17. BUH BYE

[7wo7rees]

19. Here's Megyn's new costume

She can stay off TV and in the bag forever IMO.

[marble falls]

23. In her new role she'll be joining a cast of thousands ...

[roamer65]

24. Fire her.

[YOHABLO]

25. Did anyone not see this train wreck coming? I don't think she has a grasp on propriety.

[brush]

26. And NBC foolishly bumped Tamron Hall for this nitwit with several racially...

insensitive on-air remarks in her past.

[Ptah]

27. Megyn Kelly: 'Santa Is What He Is,' Which Is White

[luvallpeeps]

28. and may joy be with her

That's what my Great Grandma would say. It's kinda akin to "don't let the door hit ya in the ass".

[3catwoman3]

30. See ya. Wouldn't want...

...to be ya!

[LenaBaby61]

31. I hate to say this ...

But does MSNBC have an opening someplace on their station for a dumb, stupid, racist, product of WHITE privileged clown named Megan Kelly

[BumRushDaShow]

32. I wouldn't put it past them

to remove Joy and put her in that slot.

However there were rumors of a "new show" on weekends as far back as June and I expect this is where she may land initially.

[Rhiannon12866]

33. I didn't know she was still on...

[JudyM]

35. Locking.

A quorum of the forum hosts agree this warrants posting in GD rather than LBN. Speculation.