During her interview with The New York Times, published Sunday, Megyn Kelly spoke candidly about embracing her bias and rejecting traditional journalistic norms. The former Fox News host, now a prominent YouTube and podcast personality with nearly 3.5 million subscribers, discussed her professional evolution and her decision to openly endorse Donald Trump at his final campaign rally before the 2024 election.
Kelly acknowledged crossing a significant boundary by publicly declaring her support for Trump, a move she said she "never would have crossed" during her days in "straight news." She described this shift as part of a "weird new hybrid lane" she now occupies, blending commentary with her journalistic roots. Addressing interviewer Lulu Garcia-Navarro’s observation that this endorsement breached a "red line for most journalists," Kelly responded, "There’s no question that I owned my bias on Trump and crossed a line that I had never crossed before... It’s just this new medium allowed me to even consider saying yes to the invitation."
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She framed this as a "before-and-after moment," noting she had already begun moving away from traditional objectivity prior to that event.
Kelly further elaborated on how success in today’s media landscape requires abandoning old rules of journalism, where personal opinions were suppressed.
She stated, "The only way one succeeds in this medium is by violating all those rules that we used to have in journalism, where you don’t really talk about yourself at all. You don’t talk about your opinions." She argued that maintaining some integrity in this space means being willing to criticize even those she admires on her "side," suggesting that her open bias doesn’t preclude holding her preferred figures accountable.
Reflecting on her Trump endorsement, Kelly told The Times, "If you haven’t sold your soul, you have to be willing to criticize the people you admire... and my owning my bias by going out there onstage with Donald Trump and saying, ‘I’m voting for him, and you should, too’ is a reflection of that."
She positioned this transparency as a strength, contrasting it with the pretense of objectivity she once maintained, and emphasized her comfort with this new role despite its departure from her past as a mainstream journalist. The interview underscores Kelly’s belief that the evolving media environment rewards authenticity and opinion over neutrality, a stance she’s fully embraced in her current career phase.
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