Media personality Megyn Kelly says podcasts played a major role in Trump’s election.
Speaking to Radio 4’s Today programme, the host of The Megyn Kelly Show podcast says the format “saved America” and was instrumental to the campaign.
Podcasts “reported on Trump honestly in a way that counterbalanced the misinformation that was being put out about him at every turn by the mainstream so-called media”, she says.
When asked about the legacy of mainstream media, Kelly says Trump has “revived” them, but said they are dying. “Let me put it to you this way: CNN on election night, I think had 4 million viewers. You know who else had 4m viewers on election night? I did,” she says.
CNN declined a request for comment from the Today programme. CNN had 4.7 million viewers on election night. and Kelly’s special has had 4.1 million views on YouTube.
