Healthy candidates, tired reporters
Via CJR
How Are You Feeling?
Healthy candidates, tired reporters
By Marc Siegel
Two weeks ago, Fox News asked me to fly out to Phoenix and join a group of nineteen journalists to review more than 1,100 pages of Senator John McCain’s medical records, stretching back over the past fifteen years.
It was supposed to be a tightly controlled process, with the pool of reporters given only three hours to make notes on the documents without Xeroxing or removing any of them. Yet by the time we arrived in Phoenix, they had already been leaked, and I knew that there were would be no major secrets. But after a night spent looking out over the miner-red hills, thriving cacti, and deep purple mountains in the Arizona distance, I joined the others at a long oval table in a room, just off the Copperwynd Resort restaurant at 7:30 a.m. the following morning.
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