I listened to a clip on reddit and schaub basically called out Ronda for being a hypocrite - the way he worded it was pretty succinct - it would have done nothing for this new empowered feminist role model image she got going and iv no dout her hollywood managers were all over it talking to fox
Nobody could do anything if Schaub just said that he had personal knowledge of the situation and that he had been told something or had seen something.
You can be sued for saying something that isn't true. You can't be sued if you report something based upon actual sources or have witnessed something and can confirm it as true.
As TFATK is media, all Schaub would have to say is that he has been told by multiple sources that they are involved, or that he's known for some time that they're involved.
So either he doesn't know anything, or he knows something and has decided not to say anything. There really isn't a middle ground.
If TFATK is not pbs or the news
then why did they come crawling to say sorry about the ronda comments....
PBS puts very specific limits on the types of comments that their broadcasters can make. It's why you won't see someone making boob jokes. It has less to do with them not being the news, than there being a different standard of expected behavior. It's like comparing ESPN's talking heads and the people who do the evening News. ESPN can say all kinds of ridiculous stuff. If you're on PBS, you'll get fired for doing that.
As for rolling it back, it's because there's still slander laws. If you make factually incorrect statements that can cause damage to another person's reputation, you open yourself to legal liability. IE, he can say there's a rumor of XXX, or that there's allegations of YYY, you just can't speak about it as factual without sources (journalist's privilege), or personal knowledge (eye witness).