Start spreading the news… Megyn is *not* leaving independent media for a gig at CBS News.
Contrary to the headlines all over the internet this week, Megyn did not visit the Tiffany Network’s headquarters nor did she sit for a screen test – though she did find all the rumors rather amusing.
On Wednesday’s show, Megyn was joined by Glenn Greenwald, host of Rumble’s System Update, to react to the fake news and why it made no sense to begin with.
The False Reporting
Proving that a lie can indeed travel halfway around the world while the truth gets its shoes on, the internet became convinced Megyn was considering taking a job at CBS News in the two hours she was live on air filming The Megyn Kelly Show on Tuesday.
As Megyn explained, her team alerted her to a Mediaite article about how she had allegedly been spotted at the network’s New York City offices that had been published while she was filming.
That piece cited a claim veteran media reporter and former CBS staffer Bernard Goldberg made on his No BS Zone podcast on Substack. He told co-host John Daly that “a certain famous person in the media was at CBS News the other day” for a “screen test,” which he clarified meant “seeing how it works on camera.”
Goldberg asked Daly to guess who it could be before erroneously naming Megyn. “Megyn Kelly was at CBS News the other day,” he alleged. “You heard it here. You’re not going to hear it anyplace else.”
If only that were true. Mediaite picked up Goldberg’s “scoop” and ran with it, as did other media outlets, before Megyn set the record straight on X. “Literally not one word of this is true,” she tweeted. “Was not at CBS, did not have a screen test, am not going to CBS, and have ZERO desire to leave what I am doing now and join the sinking ship of broadcast news.”
While the Mediaite article said “a rep for Kelly did not immediately respond to Mediaite’s request for comment,” Megyn said what actually happened is the reporter emailed one of her producers while The Megyn Kelly Show was live.
“I found out later the guy who wrote it up for Mediaite sent a note to my producer while we were live on the air saying, ‘Is this true?’ and, when he didn’t receive a response back within an hour, posted it,” she explained. “That’s not responsible journalism… The only way that covers you – and all journalists know this – is if there’s some rush to get it to air. There was no urgency on ‘Megyn Kelly’s going to CBS’ and literally not one word of it is… real.”
Megyn also noted that Goldberg, whom she called a friend, “has since retracted it, apologized and offered an addendum on his own podcast saying he was wrong.”
Why It Spread
Megyn has been very clear about the fact that she has no desire to return to broadcast or cable television. In fact, she and Greenwald talked about that very subject last month when there was rampant speculation that The Free Press’ Bari Weiss was considering taking an editorial role at the beleaguered network.
“Your view on it… was why would you leave independent media, which is the place where everything is growing, everything is vibrant… you operate without constraints… and submit to all the suffocating constraints that comes from working within a gigantic media conglomerate,” Greenwald recalled. “So, to then open my computer and see ‘Megan Kelly is doing a screen set at CBS News because she wants to go there,’ I just instantly knew it was false.”
While Greenwald said false media reports are nothing new, he believes it underscores why trust in media is at all-time lows. “I know a lot of people distrust the media for good reasons. A lot of people understand that the media often spreads false claims,” he noted. “And there’s nothing like having the media say false things about you that makes you realize the true depth and pervasiveness of how often they just fabricate, and mislead, and deceive.”
Megyn agreed and had a theory for why the story took off the way it did. “I think that the reason that they ran with it and it went viral so quickly is because Mediaite and others like it want it to be true,” she posited. “They want some sort of affirmation from people in our lane that this is the wrong lane; that these other more traditional media entities are the right lane and the better lane.”
“My returning to broadcast news would be an acknowledgement that [independent media] was just the ugly, redheaded stepchild over here,” she added, “as opposed to the prom queen, which is allegedly CBS News, when it’s exactly the opposite.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Greenwald by tuning in to episode 1,161 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.