U.S. DOJ Will Probe TV Networks Over President Trump’s Pool Coverage

The Department of Justice is investigating whether the five news organizations violated antitrust laws when they suspended their coverage of Trump in protest. The networks under probe are ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News.

ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News refused to cover the president’s activities after last month’s White House ban

The probe will assess whether the boycott breached the Sherman Act.

The investigation into the "group boycott" of White House events comes after a series of clashes between the Trump administration and major news organisations.

The Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether the five major networks violated antitrust laws when they suspended participation in the White House TV pool in protest of Donald Trump’s ban on CNN. Emily Covington, a spokesperson for the Justice Department,…

The U.S. Department of Justice has told five of the nation’s biggest TV-news outlets that it plans to investigate whether a recent decision to suspend pool coverage of President Trump after he denied White House access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico violated antitrust rules,…

Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was looking into whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.