{
  "id": 9109904,
  "title": "Major US outlets boycott shared Trump coverage in protest at media ban",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/major-us-outlets-boycott-shared-trump-coverage-in-protest-at-media-ban",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-22T08:17:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "BBC World",
    "slug": "bbc-world",
    "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje3rezd92y3o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Major US television networks suspended their shared coverage of President Donald Trump on Monday following CNN, Politico, and MSNBC being barred from the White House. The ban came after Trump accused these organizations of writing \"fiction or lies\" about his administration on Friday. The networks stated that their reporters were denied access to the White House on Saturday. In response, the three outlets have announced they will sue the Trump administration to defend the principle that the government does not dictate what the press reports. Shortly after, the White House established its own streaming channel, Trump TV, broadcasting a continuous feed of the president's statements. Several other US media outlets also declared they would not participate in pooled events, including the New York Times and Washington Post, who vowed not to share still images from Trump events on Monday. Consequently, there was no network TV footage of Trump boarding Air Force One or arriving in New York for the UN general assembly. Trump attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new Marine One helipad on the White House South Lawn, but his comments were inaudible during the stream. After a meeting with Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Trump told reporters that all media would be welcome at the press conference. The president said, \"It's interesting because, they said they were going to boycott me, but they never boycott me, so I wasn't very worried about that. Look at all that press.\" Fox News Washington bureau chief Bryan Boughton, who organizes media TV crews covering the White House, wrote in an email that the TV pool would no longer cover designated pool coverage of Trump, citing the White House's denial of CNN's pool duties for Trump's trip to New York and the threat to press freedom and independent journalism.",
  "summary": "Regular coverage of the president has been disrupted after he banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.",
  "key_points": [
    "Major US TV networks boycott Trump coverage due to White House ban",
    "CNN, Politico, and MSNBC barred from White House",
    "Other outlets like NYT, Washington Post refuse pooled events"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Daily Times",
        "title": "US TV networks protest restrictions on Trump coverage",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/us-tv-networks-protest-restrictions-on-trump-coverage",
        "published": "2026-09-22T05:21:17.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Punch",
        "title": "Trump TV goes live as major US networks halt coverage",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/trump-tv-goes-live-as-major-us-networks-halt-coverage",
        "published": "2026-09-22T07:14:40.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}