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During the last year of the Trump presidency, CNN’s coronavirus tracking graphic informed the world nearly 24/7 about the climb in cases and deaths, but under President Biden, that policy appears to have changed, despite cases hitting over one million per day mark this week.
Following President Biden’s inauguration in 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson made headlines when he noted that the CNN tracker seemingly disappeared under the new commander-in-chief. In response, the network asserted that the tracker remained in use, but only for segments about the coronavirus.
The excuse did not address the fact that the tracker seemed to appear on the network’s screen nearly around the clock during the last eight months of the Trump presidency, serving as a constant reminder of the pandemic’s horrors. Later, a CNN staffer confirmedto Project Veritas in a secretly recorded video that the network would rely on the coronavirus pandemic for high ratings.
“COVID? Gangbusters with ratings, right? Which is why we constantly have the death toll on the side, which I have a major problem with, how we’re tallying how many people die every day,” CNN Technical Director Charles Chester told Project Veritas in the video.