Yep, blatant lying and when caught it bothers them not.
They have and do admit they constructively are liars.
“[In 2016, the NYTimes] media reporter began a story this way: ‘If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalist tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?’
“In an interview last October [2016] with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Baquet admitted that the piece by his media reporter had nailed his own thinking. Trump ‘challenged our language,’ he said, and Trump ‘will have changed journalism.’ Of the daily struggle for fairness, Baquet had this to say: ‘I think that Trump has ended that struggle. . . . We now say stuff. We fact check him. We write it more powerfully that [what he says is] false.’
“With that decision, Baquet also changed the basic news story formula. To the age-old elements of who, what, when, where, and why, he added the reporter’s opinion. Now the floodgates were open, and virtually every so-called news article reflected a clear bias against Trump. Stories, photos, headlines, placement in the paper—all the tools that writers and editors have—were summoned to the battle. The goal was to pick the next president.”
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/2016-election-demise-journalistic-standards/3/