TV networks unite to fight Trump’s restriction on journalists’ access

Network TV news representatives are conferring to hash out demands about access to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign after Trump officials threatened to “blacklist” reporters who left a designated media “pen” during rallies for the presidential front-runner.

According to people at multiple networks, senior managers from the five leading TV news networks — ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox and NBC News — are discussing their response in an effort to push back against what they deem harsh and restrictive behavior by Trump’s managers, including his top aide, campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Lewandowski threatened to pull the press credentials of a CNN reporter, Noah Gray, after Gray sought to leave the press pen during a Trump campaign appearance. Gray, an “embed” for the network who has covered Trump for months, recorded Lewandowski’s threat to “blacklist” him and posted it online.