CNBC is reporting today:

• The White House television press pool that covers events by President Donald Trump on a rotating basis will stop covering those events because of the White House’s ban of CNN from acting as a member of that pool, CNN reported.
• CNN was barred from covering Trump as the designated TV pooler when the president is visiting New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
• In addition to CNN, the other members of the White House TV pool are NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox.

They are simply outraged. But let’s look at a little bit of history.

On Sunday, The American Spectator posted an article about banning CNN.

The article points out:

It is, however, unreasonable to ask former President Barack Obama to keep his mouth shut on this issue. On Saturday, he appeared on C-SPAN to offer his typically hypocritical take on Trump’s “press ban,” as the network disingenuously described it: “I’m trying to think what would have happened if I had said, you know what, Fox News, you’re out of here! It’s unimaginable!” Actually, it’s not necessary to imagine what would have happened—Zip. As Piers Morgan points out, “Obama did ban Fox, and waged almost constant war against press freedom.” Joe Concha elaborates, “Team Obama rejected more FOIA requests than anyone in history, spied on James Rosen, secretly seized AP phone records and booted several  news outlets off of his plane.”

But former President Autopen holds the record for the most extensive White House press purge. As Fox News reported in August of 2023, “At least 442 reporters have lost their credentials since the White House press office changed its rules for journalists to be eligible for permanent passes, according to reports.” The new eligibility requirements were clearly meant to target independent journalists. In order to qualify for a White House pass, reporters had to prove “Full-time employment with an organization whose principal business is  news dissemination.” This travesty produced no condemnation from the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA). Trump’s action, however, was vociferously denounced by WHCA President Jacqui Heinrich:

The article at The American Spectator concludes:

As for the claim that the Trump administration has violated the First Amendment, perhaps these “journalists” should take the time to read it. It doesn’t give CNN, MS NOW or Politico any claim to a seat in the White House briefing room.

According to AI, 56 percent of Americans watch the mainstream media. That’s probably still too many, but the distrust of the media is at an all-time high because of their false reporting. The two most honest sources of news right now are Newsmax and One America News. Unfortunately, Fox News has gone over to the dark side.