Sandego.net – The Justice Department has begun an antitrust investigation involving five major U.S. television networks after a dispute over White House press access disrupted the longstanding television pool system. The inquiry adds a new legal and political dimension to the Trump administration’s conflict with news organizations following President Donald Trump’s decision last month to bar CNN from White House grounds.

The television pool is a rotating arrangement in which ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC share the responsibility of covering presidential events. Footage gathered by the assigned network is then made available to other outlets, allowing a much wider audience to see events that cannot accommodate every news crew.…