Ep. 32 -White House Press Ban: CNN, Politico, MS NOW and Trump TV | Everyone Knows

Three newsrooms lost a desk. The networks called it the end of a free press. Here's what actually happened.
White House Press Ban: CNN, Politico, MS NOW and Trump TV | Everyone Knows Ep. 32
Everyone Knows | Episode 32 | Starborne Studios
On Saturday, September nineteenth, reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico showed up at the White House gate and had their press badges taken. Two days later, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox refused to cover the president in solidarity, the three outlets sued, and the White House switched on its own around the clock stream, Trump TV. Brian lays out what the ban is, what it is not, and the record the networks would rather you forgot.
Three parts. All of them matter.
FIRST, what really happened. Only three outlets lost their passes, and every one of them can still report whatever it wants. Brian walks through Trump's reasons, Vance's "it's not a ban," and the day the networks went dark and left Americans unable to hear the president at his own ribbon cutting. Then the lawsuit, the Trump-appointed judge who handled the Jim Acosta fight in 2018, Wednesday's hearing, and the appeals court ruling in the AP's Gulf of America case that already sided with the White House on who gets into the Oval Office and onto Air Force One.
SECOND, Trump TV and the record behind the complaint. Presidents have gone around the press since Roosevelt's fireside chats, and Trump TV is one more choice for viewers, not a replacement. Then the numbers: Vance says ninety two percent of these outlets' coverage is negative, and a Harvard study put CNN and NBC at ninety three. Then the receipts. ABC paid fifteen million dollars over George Stephanopoulos. CBS paid sixteen million over the Kamala Harris interview. The BBC admitted splicing Trump's January sixth speech and now faces a ten billion dollar lawsuit. CNN retracted, corrected and settled more than once, MSNBC retracted a story on the air, and Politico ran the Hunter Biden laptop disinformation headline.
THIRD, a free press versus a free desk. What the First Amendment actually says, where the briefing room came from, and why the Pentagon walkout proved reporting goes on without a badge. The outlets' strongest legal argument, answered plainly. What the Obama White House did to Fox and to AP reporters' phone records, and why that was a real threat and this is not. Trust in the media at a record low. Then a straight answer for everyone crying crackdown.
A straight read on what is happening and what it means for regular people. No theatrics, no party line, no soft edges. If you're tired of the spin, you're in the right place.
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