by Daniel Nussbaum18 Nov 2016
Newly appointed White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon chided Fox News in an interview Friday, claiming the cable news network’s coverage of the 2016 presidential election was
just as bad as that of progressive media outlets and predicting the conservative-oriented outlet would move toward a more “centrist†approach in the coming years.
Bannon — who is advising President-elect Donald Trump as he makes key appointments and fills Cabinet positions and will serve as a senior counselor in the White House — said that Fox News’s coverage of the election “
got it more wrong than anybody.â€
“Rupert [Murdoch] is a globalist and
never understood Trump,†Bannon told THR. “To him, Trump is a radical.
Now they’ll go centrist and build the network around Megyn Kelly.â€
Bannon also recalled for the outlet that when former network chief Roger Ailes called to defend Megyn Kelly after the star anchor tussled with Trump during the first GOP primary debate, Bannon warned Ailes that
Kelly would soon turn on him too.
Earlier this month, Radar reported that Kelly had made
a last-minute addition to her just-published first memoir, Settle for More, in which she accused Ailes of sexual harassment during her time at the network.
For his part, Bannon appears to have been correct when he predicted that
Fox News would move in a more “centrist†direction. Rupert Murdoch’s sons and eventual successors, Lachlan and James Murdoch, have reportedly expressed interest in
hiring CNN chief Jeff Zucker to take the helm at the network in a “post-Roger Ailes†world.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/11/18/steve-bannon-warned-roger-ailes-megyn-kelly-turn/
