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The White House press briefing room is empty.<\/span>Jose Luis Magana\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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President Donald Trump,<\/span> who loves a media hit, may no longer get his moments of glory on television after major news networks ABC, CBS, Fox News, and NBC announced on Monday that they would pause TV coverage of presidential events.<\/p>\n

The four networks\u2019 decision comes after Donald Trump banned CNN and other outlets \u201cfrom the White House<\/a>\u201d on Friday for \u201cconstant \u2018reporting\u2019 FAKE NEWS!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC said in a joint statement of solidarity<\/a>. Those five networks belong to the White House television press pool<\/a> and rotate daily to provide reporting, video, and audio of the president\u2019s daily events to share with other outlets around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“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.\u201d \u2014 White House television pool members: ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News Media, NBC\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 NBC News PR (@NBCNewsPR) September 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Along with CNN, Trump banned reporters<\/a> from Politico and MS NOW. Reporters from all three publications were denied access to the White House<\/a> on Saturday. The three outlets filed a lawsuit<\/a> against the Trump administration in federal court earlier on Monday morning, alleging violations of First Amendment free press rights and Fifth Amendment due process.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to CNN<\/a> and others<\/a>, Fox News Washington Bureau Chief and acting TV pool chair Bryan Boughton wrote in a Monday email to TV pool subscribers that \u201cthere will be no replacement pool put in place\u201d and \u201call other pool coverage will continue as normal, including Congress, VIPs, and selected events in Washington and around the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

CNN was scheduled to be the TV pool on Monday and would have gone with Trump to New York City for the annual United Nations General Assembly this week. According to CNN<\/a>, the White House\u2019s Sunday night press schedule listed Hearst, which owns local newspapers and TV stations across the country, as the \u201csecondary\u201d TV crew in DC and Real America\u2019s Voice, a right-wing streaming channel, as the \u201csecondary\u201d crew for the New York trip. These \u201csecondary\u201d teams can typically ask questions to the president at pool events but don\u2019t provide all the pool reporting to other media organizations.<\/p>\n

Later on Monday, Trump held a ribbon-cutting ceremony<\/a> for a new White House helipad\u2014only most of the audio sounded like static<\/a> and led at least one Newsmax reporter<\/a> to blame the inability to hear the president on a lack of pool access.<\/p>\n