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Trump's News Outlet Ban Escalates; TV Pool Boycotts Coverage

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President Trump banned CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from White House access. The three outlets sued, claiming First Amendment violations. The entire presidential television press pool suspended coverage in protest, leaving no TV pool to accompany Trump on Monday, though CNN's U.N. speech was not broadcast by the network.

NEWCNN did not air Trump's Tuesday U.N. General Assembly speech; the boycott expanded to include the president's travel coverage on Monday with no television pool accompanying him.

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Left outlets frame this as an authoritarian attack on press freedom and the First Amendment. They emphasize the networks' legal challenge and characterize the administration's actions as a direct assault on journalism and democratic accountability.

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XTrump Bans the Fake News. So Obama Thunders Down from Olympus The White House Press corps and the liberal media have gone ballistic over President Trump’s recent banning of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press room. Apparently Trump had finally had it with their decade-long trail of “fake news” (e.g., CNN on the Steele dossier: the intelligence community had “corroborated all the d@VDHanson · 4.6k ♥ · 1.6k RT