After a Chaotic Weekend in the Trump-Media Standoff, It’s Now a Wait-and-See Game for Networks – WTOP News
The five-network pool is using case-by-case coverage after CNN was sidelined, as other outlets weigh solidarity and access to presidential events.
- On Saturday, the White House barred CNN from the Air Force One pool rotation as President Donald Trump traveled to a college football game in Tennessee, prompting other major networks to decline providing replacement coverage in solidarity.
- Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the decision Sunday with ABC, claiming President Trump is "sick and tired" of outlets refusing to report accurate news and describing such coverage as a "national security problem."
- Last week, Judge Timothy Kelly granted a temporary restraining order against the White House ban, writing the court is "skeptical" that the administration's "interest in safeguarding national security is the actual motivation" for removing access.
- Media networks remain "between a rock and a hard place," as David A. Schulz, director of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School, noted, balancing press freedom advocacy against their duty to deliver news to audiences.
- Should the White House continue barring CNN, Schulz said networks may choose to litigate or "exert their market power and say, 'We're not going to play ball with you,'" raising the question of who will back down first.
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After a chaotic weekend in the Trump-media standoff, it’s now a wait-and-see game for networks – WTOP News
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