Romenesko

Columbia Journalism Review
Lawrence Altman says of being excluded from the pool of reporters picked to look at John McCain's medical records: "They [the McCain camp] had made it clear that they did not want the Times as part of this. They did not like the editorial that ran in early May -- which I had nothing to do with -- pointing out that [McCain] had passed his April deadline for issuing his medical records; we'd been trying to get them for over a year. He also hadn't released Mrs. McCain's tax records. So they had an editorial about these records, and his campaign specifically cited that when we requested, yet again, to do an interview and were told we were 'not at the top of the list.'"