Trump v the media – The Latest
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What is the background of the media boycott against Trump’s administration?
This is the Guardian.
Trump has really cracked down on the media in in a way that no other president has.
It's interesting because uh they said w they were gonna boycott me, but they never boycott me. So I wasn't very worried about that. Look at all that press.
It's a symbiotic relationship, I think, between the media and Trump. Maybe you'll see after the midterms, if Trump starts to be perceived as more of a lame duck, maybe you'll see more media organizations standing up to fight against him.
From The Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff. There's been a very big escalation in Donald Trump's war with the press. Paul Owen, you're one of our international editors. There is a boycott of pooled shared coverage of the president from a number of really major networks. The usual sort of suspects that you might expect from this CNN politico. But also some allies of the president, including Fox News. It's very striking.
Yeah, that's right.
How did major networks and Fox News respond to the pooled‑coverage boycott?
The T V pool, uh, which broadcasts footage of Trump going about his daily events. Uh you've probably seen the kind of footage where he's in front of the um uh helicopter in Marine One about to go somewhere. They decided to boycott filming him. And yeah, uh as you say, you know, as well as uh CBS, ABC, MBC, the organization's boycotting him in Include uh Fox News, which is obviously um much more of an ally. So what that means is that as Trump goes to events, uh like yesterday he was going to to New York, for example, um no one's there filming him throughout the journey. This system's been in place since since nineteen fifty and it's viewed as a as a cornerstone of um how the press covers the president in the US.
This is a response to his decision to to ban several news organisations from the White House, uh CNN, MS Now and Politico, as a response to their to their coverage of him, which he considers fake news.
Trump has responded in very Trumpian fashion by setting up his own TV network. called Trump TV, there is an advert sort of espousing uh this network that I think is the most Trumpian thing I may have ever witnessed. Uh but as you say yesterday, while he was travelling to New York, we would be used to those shots of him on Air Force One, you know, speaking into the microphone. But, you know, there is a reason that professional cameramen do this job as was on Full display yesterday.
Yeah, that's right.
Why did Trump create ‘Trump TV’ and what content does it show?
They've set up this new um uh live stream on YouTube called um Trump TV, but it's not really a like for like replacement for live coverage. So far they seem to be showing things like his uh state visit to the UK to meet King Charles, which we know meant a lot to him, um speech he did at M Mount Rushmore, uh his inauguration speech. So it's not quite Quite the same thing. Yeah. Yeah. 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.
Okay, so not s not a smooth start for the White House run uh media operation. I mean, it feels like a very worrying step in an already worrying landscape between the current president and the media. You know, we've had lawsuits, very, very expensive lawsuits against the Wall Street Journal, we've had a lawsuit against the BBC that's ongoing. But this is a another step because the networks that were banned, those three networks have clubbed together and launched legal action.
What legal actions have the banned news organisations taken against the White House?
It's going to be very complex and expensive, isn't it? And probably will take some time to resolve.
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.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the background of the media boycott against Trump’s administration?
0:00–1:07
2
How did major networks and Fox News respond to the pooled‑coverage boycott?
1:07–2:41
3
Why did Trump create ‘Trump TV’ and what content does it show?
2:41–4:08
4
What legal actions have the banned news organisations taken against the White House?
4:08–5:35
5
How has the composition of the White House press room changed during the boycott?
5:35–7:21
6
What are the broader implications of Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment?
7:21–8:27
7
Will the media’s legal battles and funding challenges affect coverage of Trump’s second term?
8:27–10:05
8
What conclusions does the interview draw about the future of press‑president relations?
10:05–11:06
Speakers
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