🧵 Saga file #26
White House media ban
Oct 5, 3 PM ET to Oct 16, 5 PM ET
- 3parts so far
- 40outlets carried a part
- 🫏20 · 9 · 10🐘left · center · right
- 11.1 daysrunning so far
- 35 minof TV captions
- 10radio newscasts
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 5, 3 PM ET · on the front pages 1.9 daysWhite House blocks Politico from Air Force One
- Oct 8, 3 PM ET · on the front pages 1.5 daysFederal judge extends temporary block on White House media ban
- Oct 14, 12 AM ET · on the front pages 2.7 daysFederal judge blocks Trump's White House media ban
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. White House blocks Politico from Air Force One
Oct 5, 3 PM ET · 16 outlets · on the front pages 1.9 days
“BREAKING: Trump WH Refusing to Allow Politico on Air Force One” first: Mediaite, The Hill
📺 CNN 3 min, MSNOW 14 s · 📻 3 newscasts
2. Federal judge extends temporary block on White House media ban
Oct 8, 3 PM ET · 14 outlets · on the front pages 1.5 days
“Trump’s attempt to ban CNN, Politico, and MS Now from White House to be heard in court” first: The Guardian
📺 CNN 8 min, MSNOW 4 min, BBC News 2 min · 📻 1 newscast
3. Federal judge blocks Trump's White House media ban
Oct 14, 12 AM ET · 35 outlets · on the front pages 2.7 days
“Taxpayer-funded ads aired hundreds of times after judge ordered Trump to halt the push” first: CNN
📺 CNN 16 min, MSNOW 2 min · 📻 6 newscasts
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index (✨ new to the saga that day)
- 2026-10-15 Press freedom threat ×1
- 2026-10-14 ✨ Press freedom threat ×1
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.