There's scarier right wing media stuff, but
"tan suit" stories that get catapulted from the fever swamps into the mainstream media are just part of every daily news cycle, when a Dem is president, especially. For a long time, Drudge was America's Assignment editor, and whatever nonsense he was pushing at 1:30 would be on CNN by 4. Every day. Twitter killed Drudge's power, but Twitter performs a similar if more decentralized function.
But it isn't Drudge or Twitter, really, it's shitty journalists and producers who just love this shit.