So....Fox News' Bret Baier. We're all going to just forget about that? [View all]
The weekend before the election, he comes out with "breaking news" that his "sources" in the FBI said that indictments surrounding the Clinton Foundation were imminent and coming. (For what exactly, I'm not sure.)
Anyways, he beat the story around for a while, it got repeated ad naseum in social media, and then he's forced to admit that the story is unsubstantiated.
But of course it's just a couple days before the election and the fake story was already out there.
Other than a half-hearted apology from Baier, there was nothing further. No discipline, no outcry for him to be suspended or fired...nothing.
Dan Rather, one of the most respected journalists in television history, lost his job for reporting on a true story with unsupported documents. Brian Williams was banished to the depths of late night MSNBC for a tall tale.
Bret Baier's fake news story had the potential to influence millions of voters on the heels of an election, and no one will ever remember what he did.
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