Brian Ross vs. FOX's Brett Baier - a tale of two corrections

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Brian Ross mixed up "candidate Trump" vs "president-elect Trump" in the FLynn story.
The piece was corrected, and he was suspended for four weeks.
Rightwingers gloat, say it proves ABC is "fake news." Conveniently forget their cabinet member just pled guilty to a felony.
Media has a field day with it.

Compare that to:

Last year, when FOX's Brett Baier went on air, a week before the election, and lied to viewers, telling them he had learned a Hillary Clinton indictment, in connection to the Clinton Foundation nontroversy, was imminent.

Two days later, he apologized, in a piece shown once on the network, then never mentioned agin:

Bret Baier is still trying to steer people away from his original report that an indictment was likely to result from the FBI's investigation of Clinton Foundation interactions with the State Department.

"That just wasn’t inartful," he said Friday. "It was a mistake and for that I’m sorry. I should have said they will continue to build their case. 'Indictment,' obviously, is a very loaded word, Jon, especially in this atmosphere, and no one knows if there would or would not be an indictment, no matter how strong investigators feel their evidence is. It’s obviously a prosecutor who has to agree to take the case and make that case to the grand jury."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/04/fox-news-report-of-likely-indictment-in-clinton-case-just-wont-die/?utm_term=.f3e5f6cb1cf5

Story tuned out to be complete BS. Baier suffered zero repercussion - no suspension, kept his job and Trump calls this channel "real news."
And the same media condemning Ross across the board gave FOX a otal pass and ignored it.

[still_one]

1. Yup, and I was pissed off at Rachel Maddow when Baier apologized for the that false story, how

Rachel defended Bauer as making an honest mistake, applauding him for his apology, and saying Baier was a good reporter

What Baier did was not an honest mistake, it was a hit job to add onto the Comey release of the letter to the republicans in Congress, which MSNBS led the pack by falsely reporting that the email investigation had been reopened, and then proceeded to parade every right wing politician across that screen propagating that lie. where the other networks willingly followed suit

The media were as much responsible for trump as was Comey and the Russians