New Actor: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox boycott replacing CNN in press pool

ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News and CNN refused to replace CNN in the rotating White House TV pool after the White House blocked CNN from its assigned pool day. The decision halted pooled television coverage of the president’s events, with no replacement crew put in place.

Other TV pool assignments, such as Congress and VIPs, continue as normal, but presidential events will have no pooled camera. No network TV pool is scheduled to travel with the president to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

The impact was immediate: at a ribbon-cutting for a new White House helipad, the official livestream carried no audible remarks without the pool’s audio gear. Still photographers in the pool, including from the New York Times, the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Reuters and Getty Images, withheld distribution of images until the end of the day, and the Washington Post also held back publication. The White House schedule listed no primary TV pool and only secondary crews, which do not perform the pool’s duties.

AI-synthesized from multiple reported sources