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‘A glorious thing’: Megyn Kelly talks ‘end of times for corporate media’, what would be ‘final nail in the coffin’

September 5, 2024 | | Print Article

Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly released a preview of her sit down with Shawn Ryan of “The Shawn Ryan Show” where she gets candid about the death of corporate media and how the industry will change.

While she does address her time at Fox News and the sexual harassment she faced there as well as the #MeToo movement, of greater interest is how she sees the end of corporate media and how it is living through its “end times.” When asked if the industry is toast, she quoted Jurassic Park, saying “Life finds a way.”

“Is this the end of mainstream media? Are we seeing its demise right now?” Ryan asked Kelly.

“Yes, yes… we’re living in the end times for corporate media I’d guess you’d call it? They’re not mainstream. Is it mainstream to go out there every day and say that guys should be allowed to punch women in the face at the Olympics and pretend they’re women? That’s not mainstream. You can’t box with the women. Sorry, you have a testosterone advantage, that’s why you got kicked out of the world championships last year. And so did the other guy,” she replied.

“You know, we’ve still got people like Megan Rapinoe out there saying, ‘It’s not happening!’ ‘They’re not taking medals.’ ‘They’re not endangering girls.’ We’re not allowed to say anything bad about the trans people. She’s so worried about protecting the ‘fake’ girls, she’s forgotten about the real ones,” Kelly said doubling down on her stance against transgenders in women’s sports.

Then she turned to CNN in the preview and hammered the network.

“So, what happened when CNN tried to launch its digital property? It closed within months. Hundreds of millions of dollars… it closed within a month. Their ratings right now on primetime? They’re pulling in half a million? I mean, I know you dwarf that in your numbers and I certainly do as well,” she commented to Ryan.

That is certainly an understatement.

As previously noted on BizPac Review:

“According to audience figures highlighted by Kelly’s team for Semafor, Kelly’s show is now not only one of the most listened-to programs on SiriusXM, but it’s also one of the top ten podcasts in the country and its viewership is eclipsing that of some mainstream news outlets on YouTube,” Semafor reported.

“Kelly boasts that despite the fact that she only has six staffers, she has managed to get numbers that put her in the range of the accounts of legacy media outlets. The Megyn Kelly Show’s YouTube channel, which has 2.3 million subscribers, had 116.8 million views in July — more views than the official channels for NBC News (78 million) CBS News (83 million), Sky News (87 million), the BBC News (72 million) and CNBC (17 million),” the news outlet noted.

Turning back to the preview, Ryan asked Kelly, “What do you think happens? I mean, does it just dissolve into nothing? TV’s just done?” he posited.

“I don’t want to see it go away altogether and I do think it will reinvent. As, you know… to steal a line from Jurassic Park, ‘Life finds a way,'” Kelly predicted.

The preview also talks about her early career and some of the interviews she has done, including the one with Russian despot Vladimir Putin. She was especially moved by the Wounded Warrior interviews she did.

She turned back to the media and it not being mainstream, telling Ryan, “You and I are the mainstream. They’re not. Is it mainstream to say open the borders? But yes, we’re living through the end times for them which is a glorious thing. We should be celebrating that. That’s one of the few great things we have to think about right now in public life.”

“What do you think the final nail in the coffin will be?” Ryan asked.

“If Trump wins again,” Kelly bluntly concluded.

“That’ll be the end?” he prodded.

“Yes, because they’ll do the same thing they did the first time,” she stated.

Closing out the preview, the conversation turned to her interview years ago with former President Trump.

“What was the conversation like with Trump when you went there?” Ryan continued.

“Classic Trump. Funny. He hugged me. He’d been telling people to boycott the show for months. Said he watched it every night. But he could not have been nicer and the last thing he said to me when I walked out of Trump Tower was, ‘You know, Megyn… it’s not such a good thing if they’re not talking about us,'” Kelly recounted.

The full interview is set to air on September 9th.

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