Emissoras de TV tiram Trump do ar

Over the past week, President Trump ordered the removal of CNN, MSNBC (formerly MS NOW) and the Politico website from the White House, claiming they "produce fake news." Major American TV networks, including Fox, responded by suspending coverage of the President's public appearances. The suspension began the day after Trump arrived in New York for the UN General Assembly and has no set end date.

In 2009, when the Obama administration attempted to remove Fox News from interviews about the toxic asset purchase program after the global financial crisis, media groups also announced they would stop covering Fox. This loyalty among media outlets exists beyond a belief in press freedom, as companies rely on each other for day-to-day coverage of the President.

Due to limited access to restricted locations, the White House created a rotating press pool system in 1933-1945, ensuring equal conditions for TV, print, photography, radio, news agencies, and foreign press. Reporters from the pool were present in Warm Springs, Georgia, during Roosevelt's death; Dallas, when John F. Kennedy was assassinated; outside the Washington Hilton, when Ronald Reagan was shot; and aboard Air Force One, during Bush, Obama, and Trump's secret visits to distant war zones.

CNN was assigned to cover Trump's NYC appearances, sharing live signals with the other major American networks - CBS, NBC, Fox, and ABC. After the revocation of CNN's credentials, the rest of the group decided to follow suit in solidarity, leaving the President exposed on TV until further notice. Text, photo, and radio reporters will continue to cover Trump normally.

"From today, the TV pool will not cover shared coverage events," said Bryan Boughton, a Fox News executive and group coordinator. "This decision stems from the White House's stance to prevent CNN from fulfilling its role in the organization. There will be no replacement." President Trump attempted to interfere with the press in his first term when he sought to limit reporter Jim Acosta's access to the White House - an issue that has since escalated since his return to the presidency a year ago.

In addition to removing the CNN reporter's access to the White House, Trump increased his interference over which vehicles could follow his agenda and restricted Associated Press reporters' access after the outlet refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as "Gulf of America." The case is currently in court. This time, there was no clear trigger for Trump's decision to bar the three vehicles.

Trump announced the blockage on his social media last Friday, accusing the three outlets of publishing "fake news," and the journalists were barred on Saturday. Today, after the government was sued by the barred vehicles, Trump returned to social media and stated that his government "is not promoting an attack on free press - something I cherish.

It is promoting an attack on fake news, something that has grown like a cancer in our beloved US." "It is corrupt, intentional, widespread, totally coordinated, and completely out of control. It is a threat to our national security and must be stopped - NOW," he claimed. With so many courts ruling against Trump in similar suits - against universities and law firms - "one would expect that the President would have learned his lesson," said Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Columbia University Knight First Amendment Institute.