SALT LAKE CITY — Two members of Utah’s all-Republican congressional delegation are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s decision to ban three media outlets from the White House. KSL reached out to all six members of Utah’s congressional delegation and the governor for comment on the media ban. Spokespeople for Gov. Spencer Cox, Sen. Mike Lee and Reps. Burgess Owens and Mike Kennedy did not immediately respond. Rep. Celeste Maloy’s office declined to comment. But Sen. John Curtis and Rep. Blake Moore, who sits high in House GOP leadership, rejected the president’s actions. “I don’t think you’ll see restriction of the press in any manual on how to lead the free world,” Curtis said. White House.” What did the president do? President Donald Trump banned all three media outlets (CNN, MS NOW and Politico) from the White House starting this weekend. The White House claimed the bans were the result of “years of false reporting,” and Trump said Monday in a social media post that he was “instituting an assault on FAKE NEWS, something that has grown like cancer in our beloved United States of America.” “It is a threat to our national security and it needs to stop NOW!” he added. CNN was also pulled from its collective features, where major news networks take turns covering the president during his daily appearances and sharing his images with other media outlets. Four other major television networks (ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC) said they will not cover presidential events as a group in solidarity with CNN. “When the president does something today, there will not be a television camera with the president that is broadcasting and sharing these images,” said Kaitlan Collins, CNN’s chief House correspondent. Blanca. Other outlets, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, announced that they would temporarily not print or share photographs taken by the group’s journalists. CNN, MS NOW and Politico filed a lawsuit on Monday, saying the ban was based on the content of their coverage and represented a violation of the First Amendment. considered ‘negative’ and chilling future reporting about him and his administration’s policies and actions.” Ed Carter, a communications professor at Brigham Young University who is also a lawyer. So why is Trump now trying to ban journalists from these outlets? “It could be to distract from political issues or unpopular policies and events,” Carter said. “This is one in a long line of attacks on journalists that appear to be motivated by President Trump’s ulterior motives.” Carter added that Trump “relies on coverage.” “His fame, his notoriety and celebrity is largely due to news coverage,” he said. Joel Campbell, a former journalist and retired journalism professor at BYU, said Trump’s ban seems “reckless” and “knee-jerk.” “That content discrimination is really offensive to the First Amendment.” Campbell said the president’s ban “seems unconstitutional, for sure.” He also praised the solidarity of the other networks that decided not to cover the presidential events. The biggest loser in this entire debate, Campbell added, is the public who needs independent information about the activities of the White House. “Unfortunately,” Campbell said, “they are the autocrats, they are the tyrants of the world, who want to manage and manipulate the media.” Contributing: Heather Peterson The key findings of this article were generated with the help of large language models and reviewed by our editorial team. The article itself is written solely by humans.
