Networks Hit Trump for Banning WashPost, Yawned at Obama Booting Three Papers in 2008

Curtis Houck | June 14, 2016
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On Monday night and Tuesday morning, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC offered multiple segments decrying presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for revoking press credentials from The Washington Post while having the exact opposite reaction to three newspapers being banned from the Obama campaign press plane in 2008. 

Between the Monday evening Tuesday morning network newscasts, there have been roughly two minutes of coverage reporting on “Trump’s latest target” following a headline on Monday that the billionaire viewed as part of “incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign.”