falsely claimed that Iraq and Saddam Hussein were behind anthrax attacks in the U.S. He reported in 2009 that Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan had made an "attempt to reach out to al Qaeda." Gawker found that Ross had edited footage in 2010 to make spontaneous acceleration in Toyota cars appear worse than it actually was.

Most recently, Ross was blasted by conservatives when he wrongly reported that Jim Holmes -- the 24-year-old accused of a shooting rampage at a theater in Aurora, Colorado -- had been associated with the tea party.

"Brian Ross is responsible for several of the establishment media’s most shameful and reckless journalistic falsehoods of the last decade," The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald told Politico. “His reporting philosophy seems to be to go on TV and say whatever he thinks will garner attention and create ‘scoops,’ without the slightest concern for whether it’s actually true.”

(h/t: Think Progress)