Because it objects to their reporting, major US news networks, including members of the White House television pool, have issued a joint statement defending press access after the Donald Trump administration revoked credentials for CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO, warning that no government should restrict journalists.
CNN is among the outlets pursuing legal action against the administration. Fellow television pool members, including ABC News, CBS News, Fox News Media and NBC News, have joined the collective statement defending press access and protesting the bans targeting the news organisations. Trump on Friday said he was banning CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO from the White House, accusing the outlets of what he described as ‘fake news’.
President Donald Trump on September 21, 2026. Because it objects to its reporting’, the joint statement from the networks read, no administration should restrict a news organization. Because it objects to its reporting”, no administration should restrict a news organisation.
The decision was communicated in an email from Bryan Boughton, the Fox News Washington bureau chief who currently chairs the television pool, CNN reported.
The White House television pool has also suspended coverage of President Donald Trump’s pool-designated events after CNN was prevented from completing its assigned rotation, according to CNN. ‘This follows the White House’s position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties’, Boughton wrote to other pool subscribers, according to CNN. The news organisations described the action as a threat to press freedom and said the move was intended to protect independent journalism from ‘government interference’. Top five U.S. broadcasters, namely ABC , CBS , CNN , Fox and NBC , stopped their “pool” coverage of the White House and U.S. In a statement, the five media organisations that make up the White House press pool said that “the public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government.
‘The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. ‘There will be no replacement pool put in place’. President? President, every day, providing a constant stream of information. They function on a rotating basis and provide a daily video feed to other news outlets and the public in general. The pool is also essential to journalists who do not have the resources or access to be physically present to cover the U.S.
Earlier reporting noted: Trump vs media: What is the White House press pool and why has it halted coverage of U.S. Earlier reporting noted: The White House press pool is the term given to a group of news organisations that travel with and cover the U.S. Earlier reporting noted: The five networks that make up the White House television pool are ABC , CBS , CNN , Fox News and NBC News .
‘This is to advise that, effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President’, Boughton wrote in the email.
