Donald Trump’s Justice Department announced an antitrust investigation today into the TV pool networks that refused to cover for CNN.
Last month Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News answered by suspending the pool coverage they share, and a federal judge restored the three outlets’ access, finding they were likely denied due process.
Now the department says the networks “proudly boycotted” White House events and may have broken the Sherman Act, the 1890 law written to stop giants like Standard Oil. The pool itself is an agreement among competitors to share footage of the president. It ran for decades without anyone calling it an illegal trust, until the networks used it to stand with a rival Trump had shut out.
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