McCain Accepts Media Environment

At the end of another adventuresome week on the trail, full of ups and downs and awkward developments, John McCain talked about campaigning without a net in today's insatiable media environment.

"Do I misspeak from time to time? Do I say something that I later have to correct? Sure," he said in an interview after his town hall meeting here Friday.

"If you talk for an hour and half, you're obviously going to have someone take a couple of words, or several words, out of context, and it goes back and forth on the blogs, and then it's on the cable (news), and that's fine, that's the way it is, I accept that," he said.

"But I'm not going to run a scripted, structured campaign," McCain declared, at the conclusion of a weeklong tour of six battleground states that was designed in part to produce a more "structured" campaign message.

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