Opinion | The White House has a workaround when networks refuse to replace CNN

Over the weekend, CNN was once again blocked from traveling with President Donald Trump on Air Force One as part of the White House pool.

And once again, conservative network Real America’s Voice was waiting in the wings, ready to provide pool footage after the other major networks declined to take CNN’s place.

Ever since the major networks resumed pool coverage in late September, the White House has three times given Real America’s Voice the secondary TV slot on a day CNN was excluded from the primary slot. The pattern appears to be an attempt by the White House, which took over the pool last year, to circumvent opposition among the major networks and other outlets to its efforts to restrict CNN’s press access.

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