Michigan Hospital Workers Say CBS and Hospital Admin Faked COVID Patients for Sensational News Segme

[PeteS in CA]

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/05/06/michigan-hospital-workers-say-cbs-and-hospital-admin-faked-covid-patients-for-sensational-news-segment-n388530

Michigan Hospital Workers Say CBS and Hospital Admin Faked COVID Patients for Sensational News Segment
BY MEGAN FOX, MAY 06, 2020 10:33 AM EST

Hospital workers at Cherry Medical Center in Grand Rapids, Mich., were caught on camera talking about their experience with a CBS News crew that made them fake a busy testing center in order to appear swamped with patients. Project Veritas received a tip from a whistleblower at the hospital who filmed what happened. Workers reported that they were called off the floors where they were working and told to get in their cars and make the line look like it was wrapping around the parking lot. Nurses in the testing center were forced to pretend they were testing patients, but they weren’t.
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Cherry Health President and CEO Tasha Blackmon told Project Veritas in a phone conversation, “We and CBS News had nothing to do with that line.” But after CBS was contacted, that story changed. CBS released a statement contradicting Blackmon’s story.

CBS News did not stage anything at the Cherry Health facility. Any suggestion to the contrary is 100% false. These allegations are alarming. We reached out to Cherry Health to address them immediately. They informed us for the first time that one of their chief officers told at least one staffer to get in the testing line along with real patients. No one from CBS News had any knowledge of this before tonight. They also said that their actions did not prevent any actual patients from being tested. We take the accuracy of our reporting very seriously and we are removing the Cherry Health portion from the piece.

Yeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhh, I really believe CBS Skews knew nussing! Nussing!

[mountaineer]

On the video, you see and hear several hospital employees saying they have to pretend to be testing a lot of people "because the news is here." I don't believe CBS, either.

[rangerrebew]

James O'Keefe: CBS Faked a Line of Cars to Make Corona Tests Seem Harder to Get
By Scott Whitlock | May 6, 2020 11:27 AM EDT

Did CBS fake a line of cars in Michigan in order to make it seem like COVID-19 testing was even more difficult? That’s what Project Veritas creator James O’Keefe asserts in a new video. Footage of the May 1 CBS This Morning shows a long line of vehicles waiting for drive-by testing in Michigan.

According to O’Keefe, “A CBS News crew pulled medical professionals off the floor at the Cherry Medical Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to line up in their vehicles so a CBS film crew would have a long line for their COVID-19 coverage.”

O’Keefe talked to an anonymous witness in Grand Rapids who alleged that CBS “told us that medical personnel were taken away from treating patients and making the line longer for actual patients wait for the COVID-19 test.”
 

Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/05/06/james-okeefe-cbs-faked-line-cars-corona-tests-seem-harder-get

[catfish1957]

The CBS spirit of Dan Rather lives on........