Posted on 04/14/2021 8:39:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester explains the logic behind his network’s COVID-19 death toll counter in a sting video Project Veritas released on Wednesday. CNN has capitalized on “panic porn” during the pandemic, promoting fear in a way that Chester said bumps up ratings.
“COVID? Gangbusters with ratings, right? Which is why we [CNN] constantly have the [COVID-19] death toll on the side, which I have a major problem with – with how we’re tallying how many people die every day,” Chester says in the video.
He explains a perverse incentive regarding the numbers. “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.”
The director explains that CNN is capitalizing on fear. “It’s fear. Fear really drives numbers [when it comes to TV ratings] … Fear is the thing that keeps you tuned in.”
Chester says that he had gotten CNN to take the death toll counter down, but then the “bat phone” rang and CNN President Jeff Zucker demanded the network restore the death toll.
“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 also confesses that CNN drives the narrative, asking leading questions in order to get people to say what the network wants them to say.
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Wow, are our fellow citizens stupid or what? This mentality is beyond me.
Nobody cares!
Wait let’s call Liz F’n cheney!
It’s over people....we let the Dems slit our throats and steal the election...in broad daylight....and we didn’t even gurgle under the blade!
The damage is done.
I hope they are very proud of how they helped take down a once great republic.
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this story, along with the one about CNN fabricating stories about politicians in order to influence elections, is proof positive that CNN is no longer a news outlet but a gossip rag on the credibility level of the National Enquirer or any other of the malicious rags at the supermarket checkout lines meant to amuse the bored and life-less.
Maybe. OTOH, CNN can barely muster 1.5 million viewers for their best rated hour of the day.
One of the most interesting comments in the article.
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““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,” he says. “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.”
Yes, I noticed that quote too.
Something to remember when you see a Republican on CNN.
They’ve already sized him or her up as a dupe.
Must watch video at link...thanks
WHAT!? You’re trying to tell me that people who kill babies would lie? Oh, no! But, they “care about you”.
You LOST me at “fellow”. I share NO kinship with them. They aint my “fellow” anything.!
Obviously... you are living in the present time as though “truth” means ANYTHING! bruce jenner now says he is a woman. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT IS NOT TRUE. The “TRUTH” no longer matters... until the “ unraveling”. Quit playing along with insanity. Refuse it! It’s just that simple.
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[[WATCH] CNN Director Reveals the Awful Truth Behind CNN’s COVID-19 Death Toll Counter: Capitalizing on “panic porn”, promoting fear in a way that bumps up ratings]
HEY!!! Don’t tell their idiot viewers!!! They live for this stuff!!!
C’mon man! You know, the thing!
CNN ratings are awful. Worse, they’re losing their captive airport audiences.
RE: CNN ratings are awful. Worse, they’re losing their captive airport audiences.
Given that a network lives and dies on ratings and audiences, who are the deep pocketed folks who are maintaining this outfit without downsizing?
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