Simmering tension between Donald J. Trump and the television networks that cover him entered an extraordinary new phase on Friday as a consortium of news executives refused to participate in a media session with Mr. Trump after his aides barred a producer from attending.
In a quickly arranged conference call, the network bureau chiefs who oversee the pooled television coverage of Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, agreed to withdraw from a tour of his new luxury hotel in Washington, declining their access because the Trump campaign would allow in only a cameraman, and not a reporter or producer who could ask questions of the candidate.
It was an unusual show of solidarity by a television news industry that has profited handsomely from Mr. Trump’s success, even as its journalists have been routinely taunted and confounded by a candidate with a penchant for lies and bullying.
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