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SOTN Editor’s Note:<\/strong>
\nKudos to author PBC for clearly delineating how the mainstream media (MSM) routinely fabricates hit pieces on targeted individuals. \u00a0The expos\u00e9 below ought to be read by every individual who interacts with the MSM on a regular basis. \u00a0Megyn Kelly provides a textbook case for how the presstitutes first sell themselves to their prey, and then stealthily move in for the kill.<\/p>\n

However, in the case of Infowars’ Alex Jones, things did not go according to plan. Jones pulled off an amazing reversal by laying bare the entire deceptive NBC operation. \u00a0This type of bad exposure has simply never happened before to the MSM. \u00a0They always controlled the interviewing process, and therefore all the most consequential outcomes.<\/p>\n

Things have changed dramatically in 2017 with the MSM being deservedly tagged with “fake news” at every turn. \u00a0The corporate media industry is likely to collapse before this is all over, as it should.<\/p>\n

State of the Nation<\/a>
\nJune 19, 2017<\/p>\n

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Megyn Kelly and NBC News Do Hit Job on Alex Jones and Trump<\/h1>\n

By Peter Barry Chowka<\/p>\n

After two weeks of hype and controversy that preceded it, the episode of Megyn Kelly\u2019s prime time NBC program Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly<\/em>, featuring Kelly\u2019s profile of and interview with Alex Jones, finally aired on the network Sunday night at 7 PM ET. The network\u2019s executives, NBC\u2019s competitors, television critics, journalists, and many interested viewers who have been following the story are now awaiting the overnight ratings \u2013 the ultimate bottom line \u2013 that will be available on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Kelly and her producers at NBC News obviously presumed that their decision to focus on Alex Jones, the much-maligned talk show host whose high traffic\u00a0Infowars Web site<\/a> is usually described by the mainstream media (MSM) as ground zero for bogus and dangerous conspiracy theories, would generate impressive ratings for her new show. Kelly is in the initial stages of needing to prove her audience pulling power on broadcast TV after abandoning her successful prime time spot at the Fox News cable channel early last January. At that time, she jumped to NBC News where she is reportedly being paid at least $15 million annually to become a marquee presence at the network \u2013 and to make Comcast, which owns NBC, big profits (the name of the game in television news these days).<\/p>\n

There were two elements to the pre-Megyn Kelly\/Alex Jones show controversies. First, the selection of Alex Jones as a subject for a profile that would be watched by millions did not go over well with Jones\u2019s numerous critics, especially a number of relatives of deceased victims of the shooting rampage in 2012 at theSandy Hook school<\/a> in Newtown, Conn. that left 20 elementary school children and six adults dead. Like his initial questioning of the \u201ctruth\u201d behind the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, Jones\u2019s comments and allegations in the months after the Sandy Hook massacre, perceived by many as inconsistent and erratic, struck a deep nerve that continues to throb almost five years later.<\/p>\n

Second was Jones\u2019s bombshell announcement on June 14 that he had secretly (and apparently legally accordng to Texas law) recorded Megyn Kelly\u2019s phone calls to him during which she obsequiously promoted the idea of his appearing on her show. Jones also claimed that he had made his own recordings \u2013 again legally \u2013 of the four hours of interviews that Kelly did with him (as a hedge against what he expected would be her selective editing of his comments to make him look bad). Jones posted audio<\/a> of two of his and Kelly\u2019s conversations and promised to make audio of the complete unedited interview available later. All of this quickly resulted in a firestorm of criticism \u2013 not so much of Jones but ofKelly<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Even before the June 18 broadcast, a variety of mainstream journalists and analysts were weighing in with stinging critiques of Kelly and her show, an apparent case of MSM elitists eating one of their own. Or maybe the cadre of left-leaning, self-appointed opinion makers never forgave Kelly for having worked for almost a decade at the conservative cable television channel they all hated, Fox News. Typical of this reporting was a June 17 article<\/a> at CNN.com by Dylan Byars titled \u201cHow NBC botched the Megyn Kelly rollout.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2015, [Kelly] told Variety<\/a>, \u201cBarbara Walters has retired, Diane Sawyer left her anchor role. Oprah has moved to the OWN network and is doing a different thing now. So why not me?\u201d<\/p>\n

What the first month of \u201cSunday Night with Megyn Kelly\u201d has shown is that wanting to be Walters, Sawyer or Winfrey does not necessarily make it so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, Alex Jones\u2019s phone conversations with Kelly, uploaded to his YouTube channel, show Kelly sounding more like a duplicitous, smarmy poseur than a hard-hitting investigative journalist as she appears to promise Jones a non-confrontational, even sympathetic, portrait on her show. In reality, once she and her production crew arrived at Jones\u2019s Austin, Texas headquarters on June 6 for the interviews, she tried to sandbag Jones by repeating allegations, and barraging him with questions based on her belief, that he is a dangerous purveyor of sensational, made up, and harmful conspiracies, Sandy Hook in particular.<\/p>\n

While the Sandy Hook shootings and Jones\u2019s insensitive and confusing comments about Sandy Hook are not an inappropriate topic of investigation, Kelly\u2019s show was originally promoted to Alex Jones and to the public as a fair and balanced profile of Jones, the leading new media phenom, in which Jones could have his say. Kelly implied if not stated outright that her program would not be primarily an expos\u00e9 into Jones\u2019s past reporting and commentary about Sandy Hook. That is not at all how the show turned out.<\/p>\n

Megyn Kelly Reports on Alex Jones and \u201cInfowars<\/strong><\/a>:\u201d The review<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like Kelly\u2019s interview<\/a> with Vladimir Putin two weeks earlier, which she was not as totally able to control as her encounter with Alex Jones, Kelly\u2019s reporting on Jones amounted to a predictable big yawn. In terms of actual substance, it revealed few new insights. What it was \u2013 and Jones was correct to anticipate this \u2013 was a major network television news hit piece \u2013 an instant classic of the genre \u2013 that skillfully edited hours of interviews and \u201cB roll\u201d taping down to 17 minutes of highly stylized, slick, one-sided audio-visual demagoguery. The Jones segment made generous use of the state of the art, masterfully manipulating video production wizardry. Obnoxiously short soundbites, jump cuts, an uncountable number of edits, stage lighting and camera angles used as weapons, the thermostat turned up to make the interview subject sweat \u2013 these and other tricks were all present in abundance and amounted to a \u201chigh-tech lynching.\u201d Mother Theresa herself could have been made to look bad if she had been subjected to these kinds of techniques.<\/p>\n

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As the pre-show controversy about the episode heated up (including Kelly being uninvited<\/a> to host the annual gala event sponsored by Sandy Hook Promise in Washington, D.C. on June 14), it was reported that NBC was \u201cscrambling<\/a>\u201d to re-edit the Jones segment to make him look worse while making Kelly appear tougher and more convincing as a journalist. Additionally, some of the relatives of the victims of Sandy Hook were reportedly invited to participate<\/a> in a new taping for the purpose of showing how Jones\u2019s comments had hurt them. A number of the relatives declined the invitation and only one young victim\u2019s father was featured in the June 18 broadcast.<\/p>\n

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At the end of Kelly\u2019s program, former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, 77, was resuscitated and rolled out to pontificate about \u201cTaking a Stand Against Hate<\/a>.\u201d This pervasive \u201chate,\u201d Brokaw insisted, is caused by the proliferation on the Internet of toxic news, disinformation, and hate speech by the likes of numerous right wing hate mongers like Alex Jones. It was at that point that I shouted out at the decrepit electronic image of Brokaw and started looking around for a shoe to throw at the TV.<\/p>\n

A surprising and disgusting element of the program was the allotment of about one-quarter of the Alex Jones segment, coming at the very start of the piece, to an attempt to link President Donald Trump to Jones and Infowars, as in cause and effect. Employing expert editing once again, it was made to appear that Jones is the noxious alt-right tail that is wagging the malleable presidential dog. These elements looked like they had been added during last-minute editing in order to deflect criticism of Kelly and to earn her cach\u00e9 with the anti-Trump \u201cresist\u201d audience.<\/p>\n

A plethora of articles about and reviews of Kelly\u2019s program with Alex Jones appeared online shortly after the broadcast ended on the East coast. Citing a selection of them, Business Insider<\/em> claimed<\/a> \u201cEarly reviews praise Megyn Kelly’s controversial interview with far-right provocateur Alex Jones.\u201d Independent observers outside the swamp of New York and Washington, D.C. would be better served by watching the video of the program<\/a> themselves and making up their own minds.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding what the ratings for this third outing of Kelly\u2019s weekly program will ultimately reveal, the loser here will likely be Megyn Kelly. Alex Jones is an archetype of the provocative personality for whom any publicity \u2013 even negative stories \u2013 turns out to be good, as the saying goes, as long as his name is spelled correctly. In light of this new level of network TV exposure, Jones stands to gain many new listeners, viewers, and Web site visitors. One can imagine lots of people who never heard of Alex Jones before checking out his Web sites and programs.<\/p>\n

In contrast, Megyn Kelly\u2019s career path at NBC and her reach for a higher level of visibility and credibility \u2013 an attempt to make her on air work rise from the mundane to the rarified level of appointment television like Oprah Winfrey\u2019s syndicated show once enjoyed \u2013 may have fallen flat. One can easily imagine millions of Oprah Winfrey\u2019s dedicated fans thinking, \u201cI knew Oprah Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey was a friend of mine. And Megyn, you are no Oprah Winfrey!\u201d<\/p>\n

Considering the longer term, Jones is in touch with and riding the wave of a powerful new meme that\u2019s gaining currency worldwide. Its adherents believe that the game is stacked against the middle class as powerful and often unseen Deep State actors, globalists, the media, academia, popular culture, government bureaucracies, and other corrupt players conspire to transform for the worse life as we know it. Peaceful opposition to this onslaught is, as Jones has defined it \u2013 the Infowar. The Internet and the new media are making more plausible a worldwide wake-up call and a paradigm shift in information, awareness, and action. And they aren\u2019t going away.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, one wonders what the NBC suits are thinking now about their widely reported $15 million-plus investment in their new golden girl, Megyn Kelly. She is decidedly not an Infowarrior or open in the least to the emerging new paradigm. And as her work at NBC is demonstrating, she is not even a good journalist.<\/p>\n

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