On Christmas morning, I opened up the next installment in celebrity memoirs: Megyn Kelly's new book Settle For More. Having voted for Hillary in November and being a part of a family of Democrats, I was a little surprised to receive the book, knowing that Kelly is affiliated with Fox News, and nothing else about her. My mom then explained that she heard Kelly speak about Settle For More and her run-ins with now President-elect Donald Trump in an interview on liberal radio news station NPR, and thought the book sounded interesting.

Settle For More was released just days after the election, and appears to be poised to sell in a world where Hillary Clinton won the presidency. At the end of her chapter entitled "Paying It Forward," while reporting at the Democratic National Convention last summer, she writes, "One week after Roger Ailes resigned, I watched as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton became the first woman in U.S. history to accept a major party's presidential nomination. In an arena in Philadelphia, her daughter, Chelsea, introduced her, the two women embracing onstage. Mrs. Clinton then let go of her daughter, turning to the cheering crowd, and began."

To sum her up in just a word, Megyn Kelly is complicated. In some cases she can be described as a champion of female empowerment, yet she rejects the feminist title. Some Fox News watchers love her, and others can't stand the way she stood up to Donald Trump's attacks. She has been called out for making racist statements. She was another voice in a sexual harassment lawsuit against former boss Roger Ailes. Kelly was also raised by a Democratic (but not very political) college professor and nurse in upstate New York, yet she attributes her independent ideology to being a lawyer for ten years before beginning her TV career.

As pointed out by Beth Egan, an associate professor at the Newhouse School of Kelly's alma mater, Syracuse University; "She has an interesting appeal right now because there is an attraction to the Hillary side after how she was treated by Trump. So she rides this really interesting neutral political place."

I finished Kelly's book the night before it was announced that she was leaving Fox News for NBC News, an interesting move for both parties, especially in light of recent fake news attacks and the fear that still hangs over many Americans since November. As with anything new, there is a lot of speculation and uncertainty. For her primetime show The Kelly File at Fox, Kelly was second only to Bill O'Reilly's The O'Reilly Factor in terms of viewers. The move has the potential to weaken Fox News, as Kelly accepted NBC's offer for less than the $25 million they promised her. At NBC, Kelly will have her own daytime show, a Sunday night newsmagazine that is hoped to rival CBS's 60 Minutes, and play a vital role in breaking news and political coverage. She joins the ranks of Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, and other primetime reporters to switch to daytime television, a move that has never turned out in a network's favor monetarily with such a huge difference in viewers and ratings solely based on the time of day. While Kelly sites the move as an opportunity to spend more time with her three young children, it may also be indicative of her growing discomfort at Fox, a network that has tirelessly promoted the very man who incessantly attacked her on social media for months on end.

Could the move cause Fox News and Megyn Kelly lovers to follow her over to NBC and eventually seek out more credible news sources? Or promote news networks to showcase more independent channels of thinking during the reign of an extreme presidential administration? Not taking such harsh sides may help stop the spin of both far left and right news sources, potentially paving the way for less sensationalist and biased journalism and allowing the public more of what has gone missing in a lot of journalism: actual news.

The Obama years were met with an influx of partisan clashes, and it's likely that the Trump Administration will bring even more of this, as Democrats work to stop certain policies from being created and repealed in a completely Republican controlled federal government. Having news sources that don't demonize people in favor of a political rhetoric may just allow for more credible news, enabling concerned citizens to act in more productive and informed ways.

In the months before he announced his candidacy for president, Trump worked tirelessly to get in the good graces of journalists. As Kelly writes in her book, “This is actually one of the untold stories of the 2016 campaign. I was not the only journalist to whom Trump offered gifts clearly meant to shape coverage. Many reporters have told me that Trump worked hard to offer them something fabulous — from hotel rooms to rides on his 757.” Megyn Kelly was offered many gifts (all of which she refused) and sent multiple flattering messages from the now president-elect, with pictures of some printed in her book that Trump, of course, denies.

A Trump presidency requires a new kind of reporting that focuses more on prioritizing the amount of coverage an incident gets based on its significance, taking Trump's tweets with a grain of salt and putting more stock in his actions, and not basing who covers certain stories on their relationship with the newsworthy person. It will also need to incorporate more investigate reporting. Throughout Settle For More, Kelly prides herself on her journalism skills; "One of my goals on The Kelly File has been to bring on newsmakers who no one else is challenging. To mix it up. To fact-check people. To set the record straight."

Kelly claims she tries to humanize those who come on her show, and not publicly humiliate public figures going through hard times, such as Brian Williams after it was found that he fabricated war stories and former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner after multiple scandals. She criticizes Democratic candidates for refusing to appear on Fox News, thinking that they would only help themselves out with Republican voters. She tries to stick to a "She reports. You decide" style of reporting on her shows. She also has her infamous "Megyn Moments," where she plays devil's advocate with whoever happens to come on her show. This can be both cringe-worthy and cheer-worthy, like when she attacked a guest who said that women shouldn't work because "it's bad for their children." Or, when she challenged another guest on her old show America Live who mocked her for taking a maternity leave on her first day back to work after the birth of her second child. She told her guest all about the Family and Medical Leave Act signed by Bill Clinton.

Kelly obviously knows what has come to be expected of her. As she ranted about certain things in Settle For More, I could find myself agreeing with some of her reasons, but agitated by her conclusions. Some of her remarks felt like she was teetering on the edge of a more liberal standpoint, only to catapult back to a conservative view. Such was the case when she described her dislike for the "Cupcake Nation" college campuses promote with their safe spaces. Kelly was told by former boss Roger Ailes that she needed to convey a more authentic version of herself, something she has worked to overcome but obviously still struggles with.

Being able to see people as neither all good or all bad is hard in any context, but can be especially difficult when it comes to political affiliations. This past election already brought out myriads of nastiness on the campaign trail and continues to break apart relationships and trust in its wake. This is not likely to go away anytime soon as Trump takes office in the next few weeks. But being able to commend Megyn Kelly for her good attributes is just as important as holding her accountable for what she gets wrong. She is human just like the rest of us, and has been in positions where she has been bullied, publicly humiliated, lost a parent at a young age, and gone through a divorce, none of which are unheard of.

Megyn Kelly may be unpredictable and flawed, but I'll be watching, hoping for her success and that of a new journalistic approach during the reign of the Trump administration.