🗞️ Story file #327
Justice department investigates TV networks over suspended press pool coverage
Oct 10, 10 PM ET to Oct 11, 6 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 23outlets carried it
- 🫏11 · 5 · 6🐘left · center · right
- 20 hourson the front pages
- 23front pages at once, at its peak
- 7 minof TV captions
- 2radio 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 11, 6 PM ETpeak: on 23 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 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: 🫏 justice department
✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- 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 (23), 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
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
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
Just the News
DOJ investigating whether media outlets violated antitrust law after refusing pool coverage Oct 11, 10 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 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 Washington Sun
The DOJ Is Investigating Networks that Halted White House Pool Coverage Oct 10, 10 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- DOJ PROBES MAJOR TV NETWORKS OVER RESPONSE TO CNN BAN CNN, 3 min
- NYT: DOJ INVESTIGATING TV NETWORKS MSNOW, 2 min
- US DoJ investigates TV networks over Trump pool coverage BBC News, 67 s
- Justice Department investigates US TV networks BBC News, 37 s
- NYT: DOJ HIRES PARTISANS, CONSPIRACISTS TO FILL RANKS MSNOW, 24 s
- JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATES TV NETWORKS OVER SUSPENDED PRESS POOL COVERAGE Fox News, 16 s
- DOJ OPENS INVESTIGATION INTO TV NETWORKS MSNOW, 7 s
📻 On the radio
- NPR News Now, Oct 11, 10:09 AM ET: the lead
- NPR News Now, Oct 11, 9:09 AM ET: story 5 of 5
🧶 Retelling
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
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.