Real America’s Voice offers free White House video amid pool access dispute

Real America’s Voice (RAV) announced on 23 September that it would make footage captured by its White House camera teams available free to other media outlets. It offered both a public, unwatermarked feed and direct delivery to newsrooms that arranged it with the broadcaster. [1]

The offer followed a dispute over access to the shared television pool. Axios reported that the White House had barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico, preventing CNN from carrying out its assigned camera duties for President Donald Trump’s trip to the United Nations. Fox News journalist Bryan Boughton, who chaired the pool, said there would be no replacement pool. Other, non-television pool reporters were still due to accompany the president. [5]

Trump shared a Just the News article about RAV’s offer on Saturday, repeating its description of the existing arrangements as a ‘press monopoly’. Five major US networks rotate responsibility for the shared presidential video feed. Just the News identifies RAV as a strategic partner. [3] [4] [5]