Parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, which Mr. Jones called a hoax, asked<br />NBC to spike the interview, saying it was extremely hurtful for her to offer a platform for Mr. Jones’s views.<br />NBC executives were retooling the segment in light of the criticism,<br />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.<br />In an internal memo obtained by , the station, WVIT, said<br />that for many of its viewers and employees, including Sandy Hook parents, “those wounds are understandably still so raw.”<br />Earlier in the day, Mr. Jones’s website, InfoWars, published audio of Ms. Kelly cajoling<br />and flattering her interview subject as she tried to secure his cooperation for the segment.<br />NBC has not released a transcript of Ms. Kelly’s interview, leading some to speculate<br />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.<br />Megyn Kelly, and Network That Bet on Her, Land on the Hot Seat -<br />By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and JOHN KOBLINJUNE 16, 2017<br />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.
