[nomel]

> I think it's misleading to present it as a legitimate action

Legitimate or not, the policy is what's there now, until challenged. You agree with that:

> might attempt to enforce it and courts might uphold that enforcement

And, clearly, so do their lawyers.

[SpicyLemonZest]

The problem is that the policy will not be challenged if people accept it as legitimate. Talk shows aren't common enough or important enough that a challenge is guaranteed to come. And so the ratchet of authoritarian takeover advances a little bit further, as Donald Trump works towards his quite explicit goal of making it illegal for the media to say bad things about him.