Megyn Kelly and Piers Morgan each took turns taking photographs at NCS for attempting to make its exhibits seem like podcasts.
On Monday’s episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the host and her visitor questioned the choice to shoot Jake Tapper’s present, “The Lead,” from his workplace. While Morgan thought it was flattering, given its clear try to emulate video podcasts, Kelly puzzled if it wasn’t an enormous waste of NCS’s cash and a “desperate ploy to save their ratings.”
“I think flattery is the most impressive thing you can have. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery,” Morgan stated. “I watch your show very regularly, and often you’re in different locations. It doesn’t matter where you are, because you can create exactly the same show from wherever you are in the world, and I’m the same. I’ve been all over the world doing my show from all sorts of different locations. That’s the beauty of the nimbleness of what we now do. We know that our viewers thoroughly embrace that.”
He added: “But the difference is we’re not mainstream media, and they’ve been very sniffy about all of this and saying, ‘Oh, look at these podcasters. No one really cares about…’ There’s this whole campaign going on now that [they’re] all irrelevant, these podcasters and YouTubers, no one cares. And I’m like, I’ve got four kids from 32 down to 14. None of them watch mainstream television at all. They all watch YouTube. They all watch my show, your show, they watch Tucker [Carlson], they watch Candace [Owens].”
Later in her present, Kelly slammed NCS as soon as once more for attempting to go the podcast route by pivoting the look of its exhibits. The host was curious if the now informal set was a waste of all the good design instruments the information group has at its disposal.
“Not only are they cosplaying as podcasters, but … he’s got all the NCS fancy tools — they have a whole graphics department. Does he use that to show a map when he’s talking about the Iranian gas fields? No,” Kelly bemoaned. “But they’ve got a setup camera which pans to a physical map above his desk. So now we have to do the bird’s eye look down at his desk, instead of using the enormous graphic design tools that NCS has spent millions of dollars to build … Talk about flushing your money down the drain.”
For the final week, NCS has been altering up the format for just a few of their exhibits. Specifically, for “The Lead,” Tapper filmed in a brand new set with a extra informal really feel, including the aforementioned bodily map for him to pour over sometimes. Outside of “The Lead,” Anderson Cooper was pulled out from behind the desk and positioned within the newsroom with rolled up sleeves and an enormous microphone in entrance of him, additionally giving a podcast really feel.
