Over the weekend the Trump White House informed CNN, MS NOW and Politico that they weren't going to be allowed inside, and now other outlets are joining them in solidarity... for the time being:
Breaking: With CNN banned from covering the White House and fulfilling its pool responsibilities, the other major TV networks are standing with CNN by declining to assign a different “TV pool” camera crew to cover President Trump. Details here >>>
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 21, 2026
Joint statement from the White House television pool members: pic.twitter.com/ztFIyD6XgJ
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) September 21, 2026
Lies and propaganda don't equate to "reporting," and JD Vance reminded these hacks about that today:
VP JD Vance on the White House press ban: "He's not banning media outlets. What he's doing is saying we're not gonna give you special access to the White House if you engage in what is effectively propaganda." pic.twitter.com/RDXTA3zWUk
— CSPAN (@cspan) September 21, 2026
"92% of their stories about the admin are negative. That's not representative of the American people!"
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) September 21, 2026
VP Vance cites MRC's study to justify Trump kicking CNN, MS NOW, and Politico out of the White House.pic.twitter.com/sPCeAbzxn7
A New York Times reporter thinks that Trump has basically self-victimized by depriving himself of the media attention he craves, according to Peter Baker:
The decision by the television outlets not to participate in the White House pool today in response to Trump's self-declared "ban on the free press" will leave the most TV-addicted president in our history without major network cameras recording his every utterance and movement.
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 21, 2026
The media's more addicted to (and dependent upon) Trump than he's addicted to them, and I suspect we're about to find that out.
TDS "journalists" are going to be losing their minds after just a few hours of not chasing Trump around:
TDS WH media who are boycotting Trump after not talking about him for one day: pic.twitter.com/3CtK1UzLy5
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) September 21, 2026
It's weird how much so many "journalists" want to stay as close as possible to "Literally Hitler."
The media outlets who are now standing in solidarity with CNN, MS NOW and Politico by not participating in the press pool are about to prove that nobody really needs network "journalism." Also this by way of MRC/Newsbusters is why I always put the J-word in quotes:
A Tale of Two Presidents: MRC analysts tallied 1,841 explicitly evaluative statements about President Trump and his Trump administration, of which 1,698 (92.2%) were negative vs. a mere 143 (7.8%) which were positive. (Our methodology excludes partisan sources, focusing on statements from reporters, anchors and nonpartisan sources. More below.) Eight years ago, using the identical methodology, we found Trump was blasted with 89% negative coverage at the hands of these networks during the first weeks of his first term.
Yet four years ago when Democrat Joe Biden assumed the office, the networks’ spin was radically different: 59% positive coverage for the new liberal President, vs. just 41% bad press — a brazen partisan gap in how the elite media treat Presidents of two different parties.
CNN and others calling what they do "reporting" is a total joke and I don't shed any tears when they're treated with all the derision they've earned.
