With the upcoming interview airing on Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, WVIT NBC Connecticut will make sure to give voice to those most affected by the tragedy, and most impacted by the interview. Sandy Hook Promise, an anti-gun violence group founded by parents of children killed in the 2012 Newtown, CT school shooting - which Jones has called a hoax - dumped Kelly as host of its fundraiser gala this week in Washington, DC.
But Kelly and NBC have defended the interview, arguing that Jones' growing influence - he has over 1.3 billion views on YouTube and his radio show, Infowars, is syndicated on 160 stations - warrants journalistic attention.
Alex Jones is threatening to release a secretly recorded conversation between himself and Megyn Kelly before their interview airs on NBC.
"Airing Ms. Kelly's interview implicitly endorses the notion that Mr. Jones" lies are actually "claims' that are worthy of serious debate; and in doing so it exponentially enhances the suffering and distress of our clients".
The CNN leaders criticized NBC News for the brief clip, or "tease", that it released of Kelly interviewing Jones to promote the interview, saying it left open the question of whether Kelly would challenge him enough.
"NBC was scrambling to find a way out of this mess without having to back down and cancel Sunday's episode of Megyn's show", a source said. I'm obsessed with you.' You know, wheeling around in her seat. "I said Sandy Hook happened, everything, she wouldn't even put it in the promo pieces".
"I've never done this in 22 years, I've never recorded another journalist", Jones said in a video he posted to Twitter.
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NBC responded to Jones' announcement on Friday, confirming that it planned to air its version of the interview this Sunday.
"I'm going to do a fair interview I'm still me - I'm not going to go out there and be Barbara Walters", she added. That she wanted to do a softball profile of Alex Jones. "Some refused because they didn't think appearing on her show would do enough to counter Alex Jones' venom".
"I saw a different side of you in that whole thing and, you know, you just became very fascinating to me", Kelly said on the recording Jones released.
NBC and Infowars did not reply to request to comment.
During the 97-second preview, Jones calls the attacks of September 11 an "inside job", questions the legitimacy of the shootings at Sandy Hook and says, "Thirty years ago, they began creating animal-human hybrids".
The letter, obtained by Variety, was sent to NBC News chairman Andrew Lack, as well as David Corvo, the executive producer of "Sunday Night" and Kimberly D. Harris, the network's general counsel.
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