The worst was probably Tom Brokaw. The speculation is that NBC was trying to keep the panic down for another bombing because they had the Olympics that year. Don't know if that is true.
No evidence that Kelly Scruggs ever slept with an FBI agent for a story. That should not have been included in Eastwood's movie. It ruined any chance I would ever see it. The AJC was one outlet that never paid a settlement.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-06-01-0306010279-story.html
NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw said of Jewell: "Look, they probably got enough to arrest him. They probably have got enough to try him."
NBC entertainment personality Jay Leno joked that Jewell was the "Una-doofus."
Ron Martz and Kelly Scruggs of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote in their July 30, 1996, story's second paragraph that Jewell "fits the profile of the lone bomber."
Columnist Dave Kindred published the address and apartment number of Jewell's residence and invoked the name of a convicted Atlanta child killer, Wayne Williams, comparing the way Jewell and Williams each was a "suspect who lived with his mother."
WXIA-TV conducted an interview with an alleged expert on "Hero's syndrome," discussing the way a person might try anything, even a staged act of heroism, to draw attention to himself.