Opinion | History sort of repeats itself with White House media ban

The Obama White House refused to let Fox News participate in a network pool rotation until other outlets came to Fox's defense

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In the wake of the alarming story of The Associated Press being banned from news events inside the Oval Office because President Donald Trump is throwing a hissy fit over the AP not calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, comes this interesting walk down memory lane.

New York University’s James Devitt, a regular Poynter Report reader with whom I correspond often, reached out to remind me of something that happened back in 2009 when Barack Obama was president.

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