Donald Trump scorns TV networks. For once, they return the favor.

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.

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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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