The CNN staff member who was secretly admitted and admitted that the network used ‘propaganda’ to get Joe Biden elected president, also said that they had increased the COVID-19 mortality rate for reviews – and that the order directly came from top buyers.
Charlie Chester, a technical director of the cable network, was filmed by Project Veritas during a series of fake Tinder dates, explaining how ‘fear really drives numbers.’
“COVID? Gangbusters with ratings,” Chester told unknown PV staff.
“That’s why we constantly have the death toll on the sidelines,” he continued, referring to the coronavirus’ death trace that would appear on the screen. ‘It would make our point better than [the COVID death toll] was higher. ”
The employee of Project Veritas, who has not been identified and claims to be a nurse, went on five appointments with CNN staff, including the last one at a coffee shop in Chester’s area. It is unclear when the dates occurred.
At one of the meetings, Chester explained to the PV employee why the network got COVID coverage so heavy and said, ‘Fear is the thing that really keeps you in check.’
Referring to the death toll, Chester said he had a big problem with how we count how many people die every day, because I even looked at it and looked, looked at it and like, ‘Let’s make it higher. ‘Like why, is it not high enough today? ”
‘And that’s what I want to say, what do I want to rally for? “It’s a problem we do,” he admitted.
Chester claims there was a ‘red phone’ that Jeff Zucker, the president of the network, would use to call the control room to order producers to play the Covid mortality rate on screen.
“Like, this special red phone rings and they pick it up, and it’s like the head of the network: ‘There’s nothing you do now that makes me want to hold on. Put the numbers back on. Because this is the most attractive thing we have. “So things like that are constantly being talked about,” the staff member said.
He also told his date that “there is no such thing as unbiased news”, explaining how it manifests at CNN.
‘Any reporter on CNN, what they’re actually doing is that they tell the person what to say. It always leads them in one direction before they even open their mouths, ‘he said.
“And the only people who mostly let us walk on air are people who have a proven record of the bait.”
A CNN spokesman did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on the second part of the Project Veritas report.
In part one of the PV series, Chester is revealed to have revealed that his network produced ‘propaganda’ to oust former President Donald Trump during the 2020 presidential election.
‘Look what we did, we [CNN] got Trump out. I’m going to say it 100 percent, and I believe 100 percent that if it were not for CNN, I do not know that Trump would be voted out, ‘Chester said, adding that he came to work for CNN. because he ‘wanted to be a part of it’.
“Our focus was to get Trump out of office, right? Without saying it, this is what it was. ”