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There's no such thing as 'off the record' anymore

by David Cohn on April 16, 2008 - 9:36pm.

From Robert Niles at Online Journalism Review

Let’s just get this on the record — there is no such thing as “off the record” anymore.

Should anyone online have doubted this fact, let this week’s tempest over U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama’s recent comments eliminate that doubt.

A writer for the Huffington Post’s “Off the Bus” project, edited by my USC colleague Marc Cooper, reported comments by Sen. Obama at a gathering with supporter where journalists supposedly were not allowed.

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