BND - DOJ investigates TV networks over press pool coverage suspension

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DOJ investigates TV networks over press pool coverage suspension

Oct 10, 10 PM ET to Oct 13, 11 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

29outlets carried it
🫏12 · 7 · 9🐘left · center · right
3 dayson the front pages
25front pages at once, at its peak
47 minof TV captions
5radio newscasts

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 10, 10 PM ETfirst on a front page: CNN
Oct 10, 11 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 11, 9 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 12, 6 AM ETpeak: on 25 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 10, 10 PM to Oct 13, 11 PM ET (peak 25), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 3 outlets ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (BBC, Financial Times, The Guardian)

📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report Google News Political Wire

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 press pool

✏️ 7 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (2 wordings): “DOJ Investigating Five Major News Networks for Alleged Boycott of White House Events” → “DOJ Investigating Major Networks for Alleged Boycott of White House Events”
CNBC (2 wordings): “Justice Department investigates TV networks as White House press-access fight escalates” → “DOJ investigates TV networks as White House press-access fight escalates”
CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News Trump’s DOJ probes major TV networks over response to White House ban of CNN” → “Trump’s DOJ probes major TV networks over response to White House ban of CNN”
NBC News (3 wordings): “Justice Department investigating major TV networks over suspending pool coverage of Trump” → “DOJ investigating major TV networks over suspending pool coverage of Trump”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “DOJ Investigating If TV Pool's Coverage Halt Violated Antitrust Law” → “DOJ Probing TV Pool's WH Coverage Halt”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Justice Department probes TV networks over Trump pool coverage” → “Justice Department probes TV networks over Trump pool boycott”
Washington Examiner (3 wordings): “Justice Department investigating TV networks that briefly suspended Trump press pool coverage” → “DOJ investigating TV networks that suspended Trump press pool coverage”

Every outlet's first headline (29), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost DOJ Investigating TV Networks Over Suspended Pool Coverage: NYT Oct 10, 8 PM ET
The Guardian US justice department investigating TV networks over Trump pool coverage Oct 11, 12 AM ET
CBS News DOJ investigating TV networks over suspension of press pool after Trump media ban Oct 10, 11 PM ET
CNBC Justice Department investigates TV networks as White House press-access fight escalates Oct 11, 5 PM ET
CNN Breaking News Trump’s DOJ probes major TV networks over response to White House ban of CNN Oct 10, 10 PM ET
Los Angeles Times DOJ launches antitrust inquiry against TV networks over White House pool coverage Oct 10, 11 PM ET
Mediaite Trump’s DOJ Is Investigating Whether TV Networks Broke The Law By Suspending His Pool Coverage Oct 10, 9 PM ET
NBC News Justice Department investigating major TV networks over suspending pool coverage of Trump Oct 10, 11 PM ET
NPR Justice Department investigates TV networks, citing possible anti-trust violations Oct 11, 2 PM ET
New York Times Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage Oct 10, 8 PM ET
The Independent DOJ investigating five TV networks over White House pool coverage Oct 12, 6 AM ET
USA Today TV networks face DOJ antitrust investigation over Trump pool coverage Oct 10, 11 PM ET
BBC US justice department investigates TV networks over Trump pool coverage Oct 10, 10 PM ET
Financial Times US justice department probes TV networks over Trump pool coverage Oct 11, 1 AM ET
Fortune DOJ is investigating news organizations for antitrust violations after the White House TV pool halted coverage when Trump banned several outlets Oct 11, 12 PM ET
Reason TV Networks Protested Press Bans by Declining To Cover Trump. That Might Have Been Illegal, the DOJ Says. Oct 12, 3 PM ET
Reuters Justice Department probes TV networks over Trump pool coverage Oct 10, 10 PM ET
Straight Arrow News DOJ investigating major news networks over suspension of pool coverage Oct 11, 1 PM ET
The Hill DOJ investigating 5 major TV networks over response to White House press ban Oct 12, 1 AM ET
Just the News DOJ investigating whether media outlets violated antitrust law after refusing pool coverage Oct 11, 10 AM ET
The Epoch Times DOJ Probes 5 Major TV Networks Over Suspension of Pool Coverage Oct 12, 11 AM ET
Washington Examiner Justice Department investigating TV networks that briefly suspended Trump press pool coverage Oct 11, 1 AM ET
Breitbart DOJ Investigating Five Major News Networks for Alleged Boycott of White House Events Oct 11, 6 PM ET
IJR DOJ Investigates Five Networks Over Press Pool Boycott Oct 10, 11 PM ET
Newsmax DOJ Investigating If TV Pool's Coverage Halt Violated Antitrust Law Oct 11, 6 AM ET
The Blaze News outlets boycotting pool report might have violated US law, Justice Department says Oct 12, 6 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit NEW: DOJ Now Investigating White House TV Pool Networks for Antitrust Violations After Attempted Boycott of Coverage White House Oct 10, 8 PM ET
The Western Journal DOJ Investigating Fox News, CNN, Broadcast Networks for Possible Violations of Federal Law Oct 12, 10 PM ET
The Washington Sun The DOJ Is Investigating Networks that Halted White House Pool Coverage Oct 10, 10 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN30 min

MSNOW14 min

BBC News2 min

Fox News25 s

DOJ INVESTIGATES 5 TV NETWORKS AS WH PRESS ACCESS FIGHT ESCALATES CNN, 11 min
DOJ INVESTIGATING 5 WH TV POOL NETWORKS CNN, 6 min
DOJ TARGETS 5 TV NETWORKS IN ANTITRUST PROBE CNN, 5 min
DOJ INVESTIGATING 5 WH TV POOL NETWORKS FOR POSSIBLE ANTITRUST VIOLATIONS CNN, 3 min
DOJ PROBES MAJOR TV NETWORKS OVER RESPONSE TO CNN BAN CNN, 3 min
JUDGE EXTENDS ORDER GIVING CNN, MSNBC & POLITICO WHITE HOUSE ACCESS CNN, 2 min
TRUMP DOJ CLASHES WITH NEWS OUTLETS IN COURT MSNOW, 2 min
NYT: DOJ INVESTIGATING TV NETWORKS MSNOW, 2 min

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 12, 7:10 AM ET: story 2 of 7
NPR News Now, Oct 12, 12:09 AM ET: story 2 of 5
NPR News Now, Oct 11, 6:09 PM ET: the lead
NPR News Now, Oct 11, 10:09 AM ET: the lead
NPR News Now, Oct 11, 9:09 AM ET: story 5 of 5

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📨 Erick Erickson

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Department of Justice Donald Trump CNN TV Networks

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

DOJ investigates TV networks over press pool coverage suspension

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