No matter how many times CBS gets caught lying they just won’t stop. Recently, they posted a fake news story about a supposed ICU nurse crying over the poor working conditions at her place of employment. As it turns out none of the nurse’s claims are true and CBS never netter the video.
In the video the nurse claims that she left her job after being told she must work in the ICU with patients diagnosed with coronavirus without the protection of a face mask.
Thanks to some digging from the people over at The Federalist it appears that the video is completely inaccurate. CBS never netted the video, instead, they dubbed it with music and added captions that included misinformation about the woman’s workplace situation.
Below is the video posted by CBS News…
So it turns out this video is entirely fraudulent. https://t.co/2axIrXK4LA
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) April 6, 2020
The woman in the video goes by the name Imaris on social media and is a self-proclaimed social media influenced on Instagram.
What CBS failed to include was the fact that Imaris had previously posted on her public Facebook page that she had been diagnosed with anxiety and bipolar depression and has not worked at the hospital in over a year. While contemplating going back to work she says she is unsure because the stress brought on by the coronavirus “triggers” her.
Democratic primary candidate Senator Bernie Sanders even fell for the fake video and he posted on his twitter account, “It is insane that our nurses are being forced to care for the sick without masks and respirators. The Department of Labor must immediately issue emergency workplace standards to protect our health workers, their families, and their patients.”
Even though Bernie is right about protecting those on the front line, it is still not right for CBS to put out fake news to gain popularity. Shame on them for using doctors and nurses who risk their lives every day to boost their ratings.
