Early in Donald Trump's news conference Tuesday, Fox News' Peter Doocy asked a question that surely baffled people who avoided social media for Labor Day.

“How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?” Doocy said to the president.

Doocy was referring to speculation about Trump's health that spread online during the long Labor Day weekend, fueled in part by the president's relative absence from the public for several days. The incident has renewed — for a different president — questions about how journalists should handle the sensitive issue of how healthy an aging leader of the free world actually is.

Trump said he was more active than had been apparent publicly and criticized the media. “It's fake news — it's so fake,” he said. “That's why the media has so little credibili

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