#Profit from fear, hate and division

Wow: It turns out CNN has made spreading fear and hate into its business model.

Project Veritas, the right-wing outfit that specializes in guerilla exposés centered on secretly-recorded videos, had one of its undercover operatives get CNN technical director Charles Chester to blab on what he thought were dates after connecting on Tinder.

In the tapes, Chester casually explains how his network preys on fear to squeeze out higher ratings. CNN President Jeff Zucker regularly called in on a special red phone call, for example, telling his “news” team to play up the COVID death toll whenever the regular news is too dull.

Chester callously explained that the virus that has taken more than 3 million lives drives “gangbuster” ratings. He even admitted that he himself had been guilty of looking at the daily death count and saying, “Let’s make it higher.”

And when the pandemic becomes old news, he added, CNN will turn to exploiting climate change for fear-driven ratings.

Objectivity is out the window: Chester explains to his “date” that there is “no such thing as unbiased news.” Indeed, he bragged, the only people CNN allows on the air are those with “a proven track record of taking the bait” that reporters feed them of exactly what opinions to express.

He also brags that he went to the network in the first place to “be a part of” getting President Trump voted out of office. Indeed, he said CNN’s entire “focus was to get Trump out of office,” so it resorted to fake stories and “propaganda.”

For example, the medical experts it brought in to discuss Trump’s COVID-19 health issues told “a story that was all speculation” about potential neurological damage, which Chester says allowed reporters to use bogus evidence to allege that Trump was “losing it.”

Meanwhile, they now take care to show shots of President Joe Biden jogging and gloss over his public fall to make him seem like a “young geriatric.”

Similarly, he says CNN is trying to “help” Black Lives Matter by avoiding mention of race unless it implicates white people.

That’s right: The network not only intentionally spreads fear, it’s intent on feeding the nation’s political divisions, too. Pretty slimy way to make a profit, isn’t it?