With CNN banned from the White House and taken off the TV pool list for today, (they were originally listed as pool for Monday and for the President’s trip to the UN General Assembly) other major TV networks are standing by the outlet and, in an astonishing move, all together deciding not to cover events designated as pool coverage of the President. What is important for people at home to understand about how this affects all of us is that the footage taken by one of the five major TV networks in the White House pool rotation (CNN, FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS) goes out to local affiliates across the country and throughout the world. If people don’t get this footage from the main 5 outlets, then the only footage left comes from the White House itself. As former WHCA president Weijia Jiang @weijia put it yesterday, “America cannot have state TV.” Right now there is no major TV pool covering the President’s movements.