Six citizens have sued President Donald Trump over his media ban, arguing that the ban deprives them of news they need as audience stakeholders, ABC News reported. According to the outlet's summary, the new lawsuit stakes a claim for the public itself.
PBS NewsHour reported, in a story credited to Jocelyn Noveck of the Associated Press, that the suit places a new party into a legal dispute between Trump and media outlets whose reporting he dislikes. That outlet described the new party as citizens who watch and read the news and, in its words, "need it to do their jobs."
ABC News and PBS NewsHour both use the phrase "audience stakeholders" in their headlines, and both frame the plaintiffs by their relationship to the news as readers and viewers rather than as news organizations. Neither summary available for this story identifies the court where the suit was filed, names the plaintiffs, or describes the terms of the media ban itself. Because the summaries are brief, the framing of the case rests on the headlines and short descriptions the two outlets published.
The ABC News report lists no author in the information available for this story, while the PBS NewsHour report is credited to Jocelyn Noveck and the Associated Press. Neither summary reports a response from Trump or his administration, and details beyond these summaries cannot be confirmed from the reports reviewed here.
Sources: ABC News: 6 citizens sue Trump, saying media ban deprives them of news as audience stakeholders; PBS NewsHour: 6 citizens sue Trump over media ban, saying it deprives them of news as audience stakeholders.