Rupert Murdoch and Alex Jones are in bed with Trump and Bannon..

His producers probably got duped and didn't exercise due diligence vetting this guy, or the producers were overly zealous in their labeling of him (which is really what the beef boils down to). It's possible I guess they were the originators of the ruse but due to the high probability of eventual discovery, that doesn't make much sense. Given the Swede's obvious desire to obfuscate the whole thing, I'm not very quick to trust them at this point.

What was not surprising is how quickly and absolutely other members of the "Press" were to pile on, something that was remarkably absent in earlier "missteps" of the likes of CNN etal.

Their minds are made up, anything else disputing that is "Fake News"...It was Fox's plan, they know their audience. Say shit now, let them absorb it like a sponge, retract it later but by that time, it embedded in their thinking. So easily manipulated.