A CNN head has personally intervened to order the cable network’s staff to display the number of people who have died of COVID-19 in the broadcast, according to CNN technical director who was caught on hidden camera making the comments. The goal was to boost ratings, the director said, explaining that “fear really drives numbers” and “is the thing that keeps you tuned in.”
“COVID? Gangbusters with ratings, right? 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,” the executive, Charlie Chester, is heard in the video as saying to a reporter with Project Veritas, an undercover journalism nonprofit.
