1) Fake scares gets eyeballs, which is what advertisers pay them for. 2) Many things the media (including Hollywood) do, if you assume the "liberal media" smea

1) Fake scares gets eyeballs, which is what advertisers pay them for. 2) Many things the media (including Hollywood) do, if you assume the "liberal media" smear is more true than not, don't make much sense—it's as if that smear is kinda bullshit and they all just love money and lots of the owners of the media companies aren't actually left-leaning at all, and, go figure, that does seem to fit reality more than the smear does, while also explaining their confusing-if-they-were-actually-commited-to-the-liberal-cause behavior. 3) CNN has made some moves lately that make it seem like they're trying to pick up some of Fox's audience after the Tucker Carlson firing. This may not be part of that (actually, I doubt it is—see point #1, "the sky is falling!" gets viewers, which sells ads, and that's enough to explain this) but then again, it might be.