Trump has taken another major step domestically in the United States. On September 22, foreign media reported that the Trump administration announced the launch of a state-operated media outlet—“Trump TV”—intended to deliver only the most critical news directly from the Trump government. According to foreign reports, this marks the first time in American history that a sitting president has formally launched a national media channel under his own name.
The fundamental motivation behind this move lies in the White House’s recent decision to bar CNN, MSNBC, and Politico from covering presidential activities. In response, the five major network news teams collectively ceased reporting on Trump’s public appearances. From the administration’s perspective, mainstream media outlets frequently edit and excerpt presidential speeches, resulting in selective framing and partisan bias. When the full context of a leader’s remarks is reshaped through media processing, the version ultimately conveyed to the public often diverges significantly from the original intent.
In fact, over decades, it has been standard practice in the United States for government agencies not to collect or distribute live footage or audio recordings of presidential events. Instead, the major broadcast networks have historically controlled the acquisition and distribution of on-site audiovisual content. Should news teams collectively refuse to rotate coverage and withhold access to raw recordings and video materials, the unedited voices of presidential addresses would be effectively blocked from reaching the national audience through traditional channels, thereby disrupting the usual mechanisms of executive communication.
Thus, Trump’s response aims to bypass third-party editorial filtering and transmit unedited, government-produced content directly to the public. Objectively speaking, mainstream U.S. media outlets do exhibit identifiable political leanings. While many major outlets refrain from openly declaring party affiliations, patterns of editorial selection, guest curation, and narrative tone consistently reflect clear partisan inclinations—a well-documented feature of contemporary American journalism. The current impasse, therefore, represents not an isolated incident but the culmination of long-standing tensions between the administration and the press.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1876990926985292/
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