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In many cases, the author will visit the referee's home institution for a semester or a year to be available for periodic grilling.
On the Today show, Hersh endured a two-day grilling that seemed like payback for the time and money NBC had wasted on a documentary it abandoned because of suspicions about the forged papers.
But Chatterbox is at a loss to explain how anyone but a pair of formerly high-ranking newspaper executives could conceive of interviewing McPherson without grilling him about his representation of the tobacco industry, which in 1997 transformed McPherson's law firm, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, into a gaudy lobbying powerhouse (at least in terms of billable hours).
Judging by today's responses, the network's lineup would seem to consist of Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel, and Barbara Walters, grilling Ellen DeGeneres about her lesbianism while a bare-assed Regis Philbin dispenses cash and prizes.
Interviews et cetera: The Fox panel makes up for its kid-gloves treatment of Kenneth Starr several weeks ago (see the Nov. 15 "Pundit Central") by grilling John McCain--and McCain rises to the occasion.