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Amanda Knox and John Ramsey - Megyn Kelly's "Double Feature" of Fascinating Interviews
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The Media's Role and the Chris Cuomo Clip
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Kelly argues that while tabloids were the loudest voices, respected news anchors amplified the prosecutor's misinformation with equal enthusiasm. The pair play a clip from a 2013 CNN interview in which Chris Cuomo asks Knox: 'Were you into deviant sex? Do you have any type of experimental activities you're embarrassed to talk about?' Knox, now a journalist herself, reflects on why she went along with it at the time: interviewers framed such questions as doing her a favor by giving her the chance to respond. As a journalist, she now knows Cuomo could simply have called the theory baseless — her sexuality had no relevance to the question of whether she was at the crime scene. Instead, Knox argues, it was about ginning up a salacious moment for ratings. Kelly, who covered Knox's case during her Fox primetime years, calls it an exercise in self-promotion at a victim's expense.
Cuomo asked Knox whether she was 'into deviant sex' and whether she engaged in 'experimental activities,' framing it as tough journalism. Knox, now a journalist herself, says he could simply have called out the theory as baseless instead of putting her on the spot — and suspects the real motivation was his own ratings.
