The bar for libel is pretty high in this country, for good reason. ChuckC doesn’t have anything that would get remotely close under any set of circumstances.
ANY journalist, even a drunken hack at some two bit tabloid*, would know more about the subject than he seems to.

*I was never drunk when I worked at Weekly World News. In fact, you have to have more than the usual knowledge of libel when you are in the business of fabricating reporting woo-woo sensationalism. You have to make sure, for example, that the guy who found the sasquatch family living next door to his trailer does not in fact resemble some real person who has the same name.