Paul Owen
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first heard Sep 2026
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And yes, yesterday when they were opening a new helipad at the at the White House, which is one of Trump's um pet projects, he's very proud of it.
They tried to film it themselves, the White House, but it turned out it wasn't quite as easy as they thought.
They were able to do the pictures, but when it came to the audio, they didn't have a boom microphone, seemed to belong to the pool, and unfortunately it was all dry.
Unfortunately.
Round out by the rotor blades of the helicopter.
Yeah, that's right.
Th there there are a couple of other cases that are quite similar.
So f when Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, the Associated Press News Agency refused to go along with that and he banned them from the White House.
And that case is still making its way through the courts.
Well.
And that there's a similar one with the Pentagon where they decided to institute some very stringent media regulations which
a lot of members of the media objected to, took them to court, and that's still going through court as well.
So it may be that even if in the end the media organisations win this, it takes so long that quite a substantial chunk of of Trump's second term goes uncovered by them.
I mean they'd already changed the composition of it quite considerably over the especially the last couple of years, inviting much more friendly uh news organisations, many of whom uh didn't quite have the same mainstream reach or professional reputations as some of the um organisations they banned.
So it maybe they're able to to fill any gaps uh that way.
Right.
Yeah, and and uh you know, Mum Mum Darney made made the point that he um believed in a free press and he'd invited all the news organizations, you know, w wasn't going along with this boycott.
And Trump then basically poured scorn on the idea of a boycott and said that essentially uh over time he's realised that the news organisations need him more than he needs them.
Right.
I mean I think that is that's
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