Don't you love the snippet out of context?
It doesn't work anymore, MSM. There are too many other venues for information.
Headlines about Kerry misstatements never say "Lied", they say it in other ways...
They're not mainstream. They're establishment but no more mainstream than the leftwing establishment in Academia.
Didn't you get the memo? The new official FR term is the "Media wing of the Democrat party" or MWDP. (Yeah, I know it was Democratic party, but I understand they hate being referred to as the Democrat party.)