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Megyn Kelly infuriates Alex Jones and his paranoid, delusional fans
Prior to the Sunday night airing of her interview with rabble-rousing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly was criticized by people who said she and NBC should not give a platform to such a dangerous demagogue. In my view, Kelly’s decision to expose Jones to a broader audience provided an important service to the country.
Jones already is a big presence on the right. By some measures, his radio show and webcasts have an audience that has grown larger than that of the Los Angeles Times or the New York Times or the Washington Post. One person who follows his tirades with more than passing interest is President Trump. Jones has brought extremism to the mainstream in heartland...
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Megyn Kelly infuriates Alex Jones and his paranoid, delusional fans
Prior to the Sunday night airing of her interview with rabble-rousing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly was criticized by people who said she and NBC should not give a platform to such a dangerous demagogue. In my view, Kelly’s decision to...
Megyn Kelly has tough questions for Alex Jones but doesn't push for hard answers
Megyn Kelly gave fake news radio host and far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones — a man who made a name for himself claiming that the 2012 massacre of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax, that Hillary Clinton ran a...
Alexandria shooting exposes the malign spirit haunting U.S. politics
Americans who have become intoxicated with political fury should be sobered by the gun attack on a group of Republican lawmakers, aides and others at a baseball field in Alexandria, Va.
On Wednesday morning, the Republicans were practicing for an...
Baseball and gun violence: Two of America's national pastimes collide in Virginia
The annual congressional baseball game dates back to 1909 and is now one of the only public displays of bipartisanship left in Washington, D.C. The game, which pits Republicans against Democrats, mirrors similar events that dominate American culture every...
Megyn Kelly's NBC interview with Alex Jones shows the perils of the big-get 'event' interview
Fake news. Conspiracies. Old-fashioned propaganda. Whatever label you choose, it’s had a gangbusters week — and it’s only Tuesday.
Making tsunami-sized waves across the media is Megyn Kelly’s forthcoming sit-down interview with fringe radio personality...
Megyn Kelly's interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones becomes a headache for NBC News
The social media backlash against Megyn Kelly’s NBC News interview with far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is showing how the transition from cable to broadcast news can be a tricky one.
Kelly, who joined NBC after 12 years at Fox News, is the...
Advertisers are in the hot seat as activists both for and against Trump call for boycotts
It has come to feel like a weekly, even daily occurrence. Following a media firestorm, usually related in some way to President Trump, advertisers face calls to sever ties with the company at the center of the outrage du jour, or else suffer a publicity...
Sandy Hook group dumps Megyn Kelly as event host over Alex Jones interview
An anti-gun violence organization founded by parents of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School has dumped Megyn Kelly as host of an event in Washington this week because of her plans to broadcast an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones....
What happened when a 64-year-old liberal attended his first NRA convention
Some men, when they retire, take up fishing, others golf. Not I. Perhaps decades of watching deer romp through my garden subliminally planted the notion. Or binge-watching “The Rifleman” reruns on Saturday mornings. Whatever the reason, I surprised my...
‘Start with hello’: Sandy Hook parents turn their grief into hope by teaching L.A. students to reach out to the lonely
Every time Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden talk to students, they have to remind themselves: Compartmentalize. Inspire. Don’t cry.
The stakes are personal and painful, life and death. Hockley and Barden each lost a child nearly five years ago in the Sandy...
Trump's disgraceful association with a Sandy Hook conspiracy peddler
To the editor: I don’t know what horrified me more, the sickening harassment by hoax peddlers of the grieving family members of the educators and children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, or that our president and his national security...
In an age of 'alternative facts,' a massacre of schoolchildren is called a hoax
If there is anything worse than losing a child, it is losing a child and having people taunt you over the loss.
That is what happened to the family of Noah Pozner, a 6-year-old with tousled brown hair and lollipop-red lips, the youngest of the...
Tragedy plus art equals catharsis in the documentary 'Midsummer in Newtown'
A group of suburban kids put on a pop-musical version of a Shakespeare comedy — hardly the stuff of stop-the-presses headlines, even when the show’s director and composer are Broadway vets. What sets apart the 2014 production “A Rockin’ Midsummer...
'First friend' Valerie Jarrett reflects on 8 years in Obama's White House
Valerie Jarrett has played a unique role in the Obama administration.
She was both a senior advisor to the president throughout his eight-year administration — it is extremely rare for White House staffers to stay for the duration — and a close friend of...
Why one Colorado school district voted to let teachers carry guns to class
Surrounded by miles of empty countryside, the small community of Hanover is something of an island on the high, rolling plains southeast of Colorado Springs.
When trouble strikes, the close-knit hamlet of ranchers and farmers can wait up to a half hour...
Florida woman charged with threatening Sandy Hook parent over hoax conspiracy theory
A Florida woman has been charged with making death threats against the parent of a child killed in the Sandy Hook school massacre because she thought the attack was a hoax, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
Lucy Richards, 57, of Tampa was...