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3 outlets · filed 11 October 2026

DOJ investigating five TV networks over White House pool coverage

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‘Group boycotts among commercial competitors can violate the Sherman Act’ a DOJ spokesperson claimed

What the coverage shows

Both outlets center the DOJ investigation into ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News over the White House pool dispute. The Washington Post frames it as a possible antitrust probe and adds that it marks a sharp escalation in the Trump administration’s use of power against perceived press enemies, while The Hill foregrounds the networks’ brief pullback from pool coverage and says sources told the New York Times about the probe. The Hill is the only one to mention the outlets’ response in the headline and extract.

Written by Crossfiled from the 3 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.

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