There. Fixed it
Nothing to do with TDS. Sorry to burst your bubble. This was an epic self pwn.
Trump banned some of the networks that operate the pool. This is the result.
The whole point of the pool is so the best camera and sound crews in the business take it in turns to set up a really good set of cameras in the best spots and ensure the sound recording is going to capture the President’s speech in complete clarity instead of hearing him drowned out by the background noise.
The convention is that if the pool crew is strictly recording the event and the speech, at the best possible quality, all other networks can use the footage.
So there’s no editorial bias in the pool crew. And anyone who thinks that this was ever a problem is buying into a complete nonsense.
The pool setup benefits the MSM, the pro Trump media, the micro bloggers and social media commentators. They all rely on professional footage because using camera phones is not a viable alternative unless you want White House reporting to look cheaper and less professional than literally every other country on the planet. Even the poorest countries wouldn’t want their official presidential speeches to be captured on wobbly phones so the world laughs at how cheap it looks.
The other networks weren’t even given enough notice to step in to cover the pool. So they put a statement out.
Trump banned the pool without thinking, who’s going to be there instead. None of his asslicking fawning fanboys with iPhones made it. His own White House crew couldn’t set up a decent sound stage.
The result was, it could’ve been a speech for the ages but we’ll never know because at Trump’s own insistence it had to be captured by an amateur bodge. It could only have been worse if the only people able to film it were the grifters from X and Telegram.
Consequences.