Parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, which Mr. Jones called a hoax, asked
NBC to spike the interview, saying it was extremely hurtful for her to offer a platform for Mr. Jones’s views.
NBC executives were retooling the segment in light of the criticism,
and Ms. Kelly has contacted parents of Sandy Hook victims in recent days, asking if they would be willing to speak on-camera to respond to Mr. Jones.
In an internal memo obtained by , the station, WVIT, said
that for many of its viewers and employees, including Sandy Hook parents, “those wounds are understandably still so raw.”
Earlier in the day, Mr. Jones’s website, InfoWars, published audio of Ms. Kelly cajoling
and flattering her interview subject as she tried to secure his cooperation for the segment.
NBC has not released a transcript of Ms. Kelly’s interview, leading some to speculate
that her interrogation of Mr. Jones over his more contentious views — for instance, that Sandy Hook was a hoax and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were carried out by the United States government — was less than ferocious.
Megyn Kelly, and Network That Bet on Her, Land on the Hot Seat -
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and JOHN KOBLINJUNE 16, 2017
Until Megyn Kelly, no prime-time Fox News anchor had tried to leap from partisan basic cable to the more pedigreed world of network news.