What Megyn Kelly didn't tell Today show viewers about the "Russian broadcaster" she interviewed

[deminks]

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/06/01/what-megyn-kelly-didnt-tell-today-show-viewers-about-russian-broadcaster-she-interviewed/216738

In her first segment for NBC News, Megyn Kelly interviewed Sergey Brilev, described only as a “Russian broadcaster,” who criticized claims that the Russian government influenced the 2016 U.S. presidential election. While Kelly’s viewers might have come away from the segment thinking that Brilev is an independent journalist, he’s actually a top executive at a state news agency who played a key role in one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s propaganda efforts.

Kelly’s segment was shot in St. Petersburg and previews her upcoming interview with Putin that will air on the premiere of her new NBC newsmagazine show, Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly. Kelly presents the question of whether the Russians influenced our election as a he said, she said debate between the U.S. intelligence community, which declared that Putin “ordered a hack of Democratic officials and of Hillary Clinton’s campaign,” and Putin, Brilev, and Russians on the street who deny that happened.

“They sincerely hope that the Americans, with your marvelous, magnificent history of democracy, will come to terms with yourselves,” Brilev tells Kelly of the notion of Russian hacking efforts as they walk through a square. After Kelly responds by saying that it would be a “pretty big deal” if Russia acted to interfere with our election, he replies, “It's humiliating -- self-humiliating for such a great country as the United States of America to think that your election was decided in Moscow.”

Asked by Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie what surprised her about the interviews she conducted with “people on the Russian streets,” Kelly responded in part, “Almost none believes that Russia interfered with our election.”

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:facepalm.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Oh my,Andy Lack's new hire is

doing her job,and that is the Normalization of the Trump Crime Family as per Comcast.

[mhw]

2. Welk dang Megyn! If Russia says so then it must be our crazy American imagination

Btw Russia, why have some of your finest suddenly died of such unexplained & odd circumstances?

Did she ask abot the tens of thousands of KGBesq botniks?

What's Putin got over Trump?

The questions are endless. Can't believe Megyn only went for fluff.

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Hey! It's "Fair and Balanced" Reporting!

Russia's statements have equal weight with the USIC, didn't you know? Kelley reports, YOU decide. The fact is, if her Russian interviewee says something that Putin doesn't like, he'll end up with a fatal "heart attack" next Friday. Why don't you report THAT, Megyn?

[mhw]

6. Ya Megyn 'sellout' Kelly..report THAT!

Opportunity knocks for everyone of those fkers & they all turn & run for it.
"America who?"

I do not know who will stop this freight train heading straight fo us.
I fear it will come fast & we will be changed forever.
Too late to save ourselves, too late to flee.

[katmondoo]

3. I don't intend to ever watch her

[Eyeball_Kid]

5. Based upon this first show, Kelley's a Breitbart stooge.

She's got to get out of that Fox News shit hole and try real journalism. Raising the status of Russian media performers is a big mistake at this time, given that they're all going to get outed by the USIC and the FBI.

[Justice]

7. Putin is acknowledging there was interference by "patriotic Russians"

[leftynyc]

8. Don't watch the show or the interview

She needs to be dealt with the same way greta is - no eyes.

[hedda_foil]

9. She's opposite 60 Minutes so I have my fingers crossed they'll do her in bigly!