‘Extraordinary Show of Solidarity!’ Media World Floored By Rival Networks Banding Together to Fight Trump Ban
Fox News, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and NBC News joined together on Monday and pulled their TV cameras from White House pool, effectively boycotting coverage of the Trump White House following the ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico.
"The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting," said the five networks that make up the White House TV press pool in a joint statement.
The move was led by White House TV pool rotational chair and Fox News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton, who wrote, "Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President. This follows the White House's position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place." Boughton's advisory was for Monday, and it is unclear if it applies going forward.
Many across the media world were stunned by the remarkable banding together of industry rivals.
New York Times media reporter Ben Mullin reacted online, writing, "This kind of joint response from the major networks, combined with the suspension of the TV pool, is very unusual. An extraordinary show of solidarity from the press."
Many on the MAGA right fumed at Fox News over the move. Conservative Radio host Todd Starnes replied, "There is absolutely no difference between the newsrooms at Fox and CNN or PMS-NOW. The only question is whether President Trump will pull the plug on administration officials doing interviews on Fox."
This is a perfect case of "act like a child; get treated like a child". The dumbest part is he berates all those agencies he doesn't like in that room anyway. Seems like he liked it that way. I guess the wind changed.
I believe FOX News and any rational thinking news organization understands the long term implications here. If this is allowed to stand they fully realize that it could come back to bite them in the azz when a democrat holds the oval office. They stated as much...........
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Jacqui Heinrich, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, called the latest move to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters from the White House a violation of the First Amendment.
“The implications extend beyond these organizations: a standard used to exclude one news outlet because of its coverage could be applied to any outlet in the future,” Heinrich, who covers the White House for Fox News, wrote in a statement.
“The American people, through a free and independent press, must be able to scrutinize those elected to power, regardless of whether government officials view it favorably,” she added.
It isn't the first time trump has done this and the first time was so trivial that if weren't so sad it would be hilarious........
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The White House banned The Associated Press from certain spaces in the building over its refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” and rearranged the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room during the early days of his second term to make way for conservative and friendly media outlets.
What is really sad is the United States of America does not have a true unbiased media. That is shameful. Trump is wrong to kick any so-called media outlets out of the White House. Must protect the Constitution.
I agree. Obama tried to block a Fox News journalist out of a multi-network "pool" interview with Kenneth Feinberg, the administration's special master for executive compensation. Certainly not a total ban of FOX News but no less wrong. Other news outlets such CNN supported FOX News and Obama backed off and allowed FOX News to cover it.
It seems that other than some of the conservative talking heads a lot of people on both sides agree on this and I'm certainly glad to see it.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
Nobody has ever seen numbers like these. They were huuuuuuuge
Trump TV Launch RatingsPeak Viewership: Reached about 8,000 viewers at its Monday launch .Drop-off: Fell to 4,000 viewers within 90 minutes and down to about 3,000 by 9 p.m. Overnight Numbers: Dropped to roughly 1,100 to 2,400 viewers overnight.
Probably more symbolic than anything, but the move will never stick, nor should it stick.
To me one solution is to not call on various reporters. The person at the podium has the total discretion over who they call on and who they don't though I am not all that supportive of that. It still wouldn't prevent twisted, out of context reporting or selective reporting.
The netwoks in general are horrible at reporting the national news. Out of a 30 minute broadcast you get maybe 6 minutes of actual national news coverage. After that you get 12 minutes of commercials and then fluff and stupid stuff. Some actress you never heard of O.D.ing isn't national news. That will all be covered in the stupid programs that follow.
The OD I reference was eventually listed as an accidental OD. If I had my way it would be listed as a suicide. That way insurance companies wouldn't have to pay out any insurance the person might have had. I am sure some are accidental, but many are simply unintentional suicide.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
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