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    "parsed_content": "Trump AdministrationN.I.H. GrantsGreenland DealDefense of A.I.Voting by MailApproval RatingAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTFox News Finds Itself at Odds With Trump on Press BanThe home of Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham has joined rival networks in suspending its coverage of pooled presidential events.Listen \u00b7 5:06 min Share full articleIt was a big deal when Fox News joined the White House TV pool in the 1990s, back when the fledgling channel was seeking legitimacy in Washington.Credit...Vincent Alban\/The New York TimesBy Michael M. GrynbaumSept. 23, 2026, 1:00 p.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Fox News\u2019s bond with President Trump is undeniable. Prime time stars like Sean Hannity and Jesse Watters cheerlead his policies, the president\u2019s daughter-in-law hosts a weekly show on the network, and Fox\u2019s founder, Rupert Murdoch, attended Mr. Trump\u2019s nominating convention in 2024.Nonetheless, this week Fox News has joined other networks in standing up for the rival media outlets that Mr. Trump decried as \u201cfake\u201d and banned from the White House \u2014 and two senior Fox journalists emerged as lead actors in the White House press corps\u2019s standoff with the administration.At a glance, it\u2019s an unlikely position for Fox News, wrought in part by history and in part by sheer coincidence. And it\u2019s confused some liberal Fox critics and caused some heartburn for Trump hard-liners.So first, some facts.Fox News is one of the five major networks \u2014 the others are ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC \u2014 that form the presidential TV pool, sharing the duties and costs of generating video footage of Mr. Trump\u2019s everyday activities. When the president barred CNN, along with Politico and MS NOW, from the White House last week, the networks rebelled, refusing to film his daily public events until CNN was reinstated.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTFox News did not hesitate to go along with the plan. On Tuesday night, for instance, Fox was the scheduled pool crew for Mr. Trump\u2019s Air Force One arrival at Joint Base Andrews, but it declined to film the event.A Fox News spokeswoman referred an inquiry on Wednesday to a joint statement from the five networks, which Fox co-signed: \u201cNo administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting.\u201dInside Fox News this week, journalists have kept an eye on the past and the future, according to people with knowledge of its internal deliberations.It was a big deal when Fox News joined the White House TV pool in the 1990s, back when the fledgling channel was seeking legitimacy in Washington. And in 2009, the pool came to Fox\u2019s defense. When the Obama administration called the network \u201ca wing of the Republican Party\u201d and moved to bar it from a Treasury Department event, the other networks refused to participate until the Obama team relented and reinstated Fox.The network is also aware that, theoretically, a future Democratic administration could try to ban Fox News the way Mr. Trump has barred CNN, the people said. So standing up for CNN now may benefit Fox later. That sentiment has been echoed by conservatives like Ari Fleischer, who served as press secretary to former President George W. Bush. \u201cDon\u2019t ban them,\u201d Mr. Fleischer wrote on X. \u201cOr one day they\u2019ll ban us.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTFox News has also supported the journalists who were effectively evicted from the Pentagon in March by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as part of a series of moves aimed at drastically curtailing reporters\u2019 access to the Defense Department. Mr. Hegseth, a former \u201cFox & Friends Weekend\u201d host, has not appeared on Fox News in more than a year, even as other networks, like CBS, have repeatedly booked him. (The New York Times has sued over the Pentagon restrictions.)It so happens that the current chair of the five-network pool group \u2014 a role that rotates every quarter \u2014 is Bryan Boughton, Fox News\u2019s Washington bureau chief. So Mr. Boughton was the signatory on a note on Monday decreeing that \u201ceffective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the president.\u201dIt also happens that the current president of the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association is Jacqui Heinrich, an anchor and senior correspondent at Fox News. So Ms. Heinrich is the name and face behind many public statements condemning Mr. Trump\u2019s aggression toward the media and demanding his administration respect the rights of the free press.Not every Fox viewer is pleased, with some right-wing accounts on social media blasting the network for its actions. But Fox is not alone among conservative-friendly networks in standing up for the White House press corps. The right-wing channel Newsmax is opposed to Mr. Trump\u2019s press ban, according to its chief executive, Christopher Ruddy.\u201cWe hope the president reconsiders his decision, as this would set a bad precedent for all media, including conservative outlets like Newsmax,\u201d Mr. Ruddy said in an interview. \u201cNewsmax asked tough questions during both the Obama and Biden administrations, and at no point did anyone suggest that we might be banned.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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