CNN told producers to lie and fearmonger about Covid-19 deaths for ratings

[Andrew W]

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-04-15-cnn-told-producers-lie-covid19-deaths-ratings.html


Project Veritas has done it again, this time with an exposé outing fake news
giant CNN for fear mongering about the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19).

According to CNN technical director Charlie Chester, the fake news network’s
head ordered staff to constantly display on the screen during broadcasts
“death” numbers supposedly tied to the Chinese Virus – the goal being to
scare viewers into accepting more government tyranny while boosting ratings.

Chester told an undercover Project Veritas reporter that “fear really drives
numbers” and “is the thing that keeps you tuned in.” This is why CNN‘s
entire business model relies on selling fear 24 hours a day, seven days a
week.

“Covid? Gangbusters with ratings, right?” Chester stated. “Which is why we
[CNN] constantly have the [Covid] death toll on the side, which I have a
major problem with, with how we’re tallying how many people die every day.”

CNN not only blasts that death number to viewers during every broadcast, but
the network also pads the numbers to make them seem as scary as possible.
This is how CNN keeps people tuned in and scared.

According to Chester, higher-ups at the fake news network would often tell
him to pull down the death count tally, only to have the head of the network
come in and say that it had to be plastered back up on the screen.

“The special red phone rings and this producer picks it up,” Chester
explained. “You hear [murmurs] and every so often they put it on speaker and
it’s the head of the network being like, ‘There’s nothing that you’re doing
right now that makes me want to stick.'”

“‘Put the [Covid death toll] numbers back up because that’s the most
enticing thing that we had. So, put it back up,'” Chester added, citing a
hypothetical response from CNN network head Jeff Zucker. Though Chester is
not heard in the recordings specifically mentioning Zucker by name, we know
that Zucker is the one who calls all the shots at CNN.

You can watch the footage below:

https://youtu.be/9faQkIA6YNU

CNN also lied to viewers to get Joe Biden “elected” as “president”

In another undercover video that Project Veritas released just one day prior
to this one, Chester also admitted that CNN worked overtime to ensure that
Donald Trump “lost” the 2020 election.

Were it not for CNN’s constant barrage of fake news reporting, Chester
stated, there is no way that Hunter’s dad (Joe Biden) ever would have “won”
the election.

“Look at what we did,” Chester bragged. “We got Trump out. I am 100 percent
going to say it. And I 100 percent believe it that if it wasn’t for CNN, I
don’t know that Trump would have gotten voted out.”

Calling CNN’s reporting “propaganda,” Chester added that for most of the
time between 2016-2020, CNN/s primary goal was to stop Trump from doing his
job while doing everything within the network’s power to steal the 2020
election from him.

CNN routinely manufactured fake news stories, Chester admitted, that were
designed to make Trump appear unhealthy and unstable, for example.

“We brought in, like, so many medical people to, like, all tell a story
that, like, it was all speculation that he was, like, neurologically
damaged – that he was losing it, he’s unfit to, you know, whatever,” Chester
rambled.

“We were creating a story that we didn’t know anything about,” he further
explained about how CNN’s entire business model centers around creating fake
news for its gullible viewers.