'Great Deal of Scepticism' as Trump Launches Own TV Channel
The 24/7 livestream follows the White House ban on several news outlets and comes as major networks suspend pooled coverage.
- On Monday, the White House launched 'Trump TV,' a 24/7 YouTube-hosted stream featuring presidential announcements and past moments. Digital strategy head Kaelan Dorr described the channel as showing the 'Administration's greatest hits, unfiltered.'
- President Donald Trump banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press pool on Friday, citing negative coverage. The three outlets subsequently sued the Administration on free speech grounds.
- In solidarity against the ban, ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC suspended television pool coverage on Monday. Their joint statement said, 'No Administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting.'
- California Governor Gavin Newsom and Democratic U.S. Senator for Arizona Mark Kelly condemned the move as autocratic. Newsom accused the administration of launching 'state-run TV' to drown out facts about its failing performance.
- 'America cannot have state TV,' Weijia Jiang, CBS News senior White House correspondent, warned on Sunday. Jiang emphasized citizens need independent observers; government control of coverage threatens accountability.
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The White House has launched the broadcasts of its new Trump TV platform with a speech given by the White House tenant in July during the events for the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence, a broadcast that comes in full controversy over the veto imposed on various media outlets that the Republican accuses of publishing "fake news" about him and his administration. "We are live. Trump TV is already streaming," the White House said in a social…
Boycotted by the big American channels, after the ban on some media in the White House, the US president is trying to retaliate. This YouTube channel was launched on Monday night.
'Great deal of scepticism' as Trump launches own TV channel
The White House launched a "Trump TV" stream on Monday evening, days after Trump banned three media outlets from the White House. The White House said the stream will run videos and highlights of what it calls the Trump administration's achievements but critics have compared it to state propaganda networks seen in autocratic countries such as North Korea, reports the Guardian’s Washington bureau chief David Smith.
The White House launched a 24-hour television channel on YouTube about U.S. President Donald Trump.
Broadcast on Youtube will be "24 hours a day, 7 days a week" and "updated in real time." After banishing CNN, MSNow and Politico, Trump was left to speak without microphones in the White House.
The White House launched the Trump TV channel via YouTube to broadcast and manage 24-hour United States President Donald Trump's content, days after journalists from CNN, MSN and Politico were banned from entering it.
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