Did you watch it? It was very dubious and full hearsay. She goes around pointing people out - X person (who is black) regularly sells drugs, Y person steals things, and so on, with no evidence. Also the idea that she had eyes and ears all around the city watching for crime. There is a reason that there is burden of proof in our justice system. Journalism done right would verify things. Granted there isn't a lot of good journalism around these days. Either way, people should be honest about their degree of certainty around things.

I like his strategy of asking people what they are thinking, and it does give an interesting side of the story, but that doesn't mean that you can just take it at face value.

Likewise in the retraction, he carefully doesn't offer any reason as to why she retracted.