At least they are if you go by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center definition:
We identified four types of speech that, through negative statements, create a climate of hate and prejudice: (1) false facts [including “simple falsehoods, exaggerated statements, or decontextualized facts [that] rendered the statements misleading”], (2) flawed argumentation, (3) divisive language, and (4) dehumanizing metaphors.
They ascribe the above to commercial talk radio, but it applies also to the so-called objective mainstream media.
