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A television camera stands outside the West Wing of the White House on Sept. 21, 2026, the day the network pool stopped covering President Trump.

Sherman Act Probe of the TV Pool Turns on Who Gained From the Boycott

In 1981 CNN sued ABC, CBS, NBC and the Reagan White House to get into the White House TV pool. Now the Justice Department is demanding the five pool networks' internal messages about their four-day halt in covering Trump, on a theory the Supreme Court's own boycott cases make hard to win.

Politics  · 11 Oct 2026, 12:41  · Marcus Hale