Posted on 04/14/2021 10:36:44 AM PDT by servo1969
Project Veritas released the second installment of a new #ExposeCNN series today, featuring Technical Director Charlie Chester - who described how the network uses "manipulation" to shape public opinion and garner higher ratings. "Any reporter on CNN -- what they're actually doing is they're telling the person what to say... It's always like leading them in a direction before they even open their mouths. The only people that we [CNN] will let on the air, for the most part, are people that have a proven track record of taking the bait," Chester explained.
"I think there's an art to manipulation...Inflection, saying things twice -- there's little subtleties to how to manipulate people...I mean, it's enough to change the world, you know?"
"Like, why isn't it high enough, you know, today? Like it would make our point better if it was higher. And I'm like, what am I f***ing rallying for? That's a problem that we're doing that."
Chester also described how CNN has used the COVID-19 pandemic to keep viewers hooked on the screen.
"It's fear. Fear really drives numbers - [TV ratings]," Chester said. "Fear is the thing that keeps you tuned in."
He added, "COVID? Gangbusters with ratings, right? Which is why we [CNN] constantly have the [COVID] death toll on the side."
Chester said Jeff Zucker - the network's president -- would call the CNN newsroom during live TV segments and order the staff to keep COVID death tolls on the screen to capture viewers' attention.
Chester admitted, "The special red phone rings and this producer picks it up. 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 went on to explain how his network manipulates the public and attempts to hide their tactics, in order to be successful in achieving personal political agendas.
"No one ever says those things out loud, but it's obvious based on the amount of stories that we [CNN] do. The fact that we have a segment called 'The Good Stuff', which is a feel-good thing, but it's a dedicated moment at the end to almost be the ice cream to alleviate everything that you've been through. Something sweet to end it with because everything else is doom and gloom," he said.
If this has already been posted, I apologize. I didn’t see it.
Seems as though the majority of the public, at least to see and hear it told, are dumb enough to buy the lie, what do you think is gonna happen? Give us dirty laundry.
“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
― George Orwell, 1984
In a truly just nation punks like this would be put up against the wall.
This is why even Republicans were not allowed to go on any channel after the election until they first said they did not believe it was stolen.
Unfortunately, too many chose to play the game instead of simply walking away. For them, the screen time for themselves was too important.
“how the network uses “manipulation” to shape public opinion and garner higher ratings.”
A loud alarm goes off in my head whenever a public figure uses these puerile manipulation techniques. After that, I have trouble taking them seriously any more. They’ve demonstrated an inclination to deceive or to coerce rather than to persuade. That means not even they believe their own words.
Fauci lasted 5 minutes with me, when Trump first introduced him to the public. I would have dismissed him sooner, but he hadn’t opened his mouth up until that point.
The right, on the other hand, ALWAYS relies on cold hard facts and statistics, which bore the average voter. Once they are bored, you've lost them.
Examples: "It's for the children..." or "Tax breaks for the rich on the backs of the poor..." Totally false statements, presented in an entirely emotional way to the audience, who absolutely eats it up.
James O'Keefe's messaging is squashed elsewhere.
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