Snopes

They do seem to do that. Also to claim that they are doing science is nuts. In a journalistic or debate-like manner, as an untrained person even, and not to a scientific journal, not reviewed by scientists as peer review.... by itself just reporting information, or supposedly reports of facts, from other sources is not science per se.... It's a part of science but it's not science.
They're using sources like CNN, iirc, to construct a narrative and putting a stamp on it. Such as about events in Syria. That's journalism, and debate, not science.