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The Guardian said in a statement: "Journalists would no doubt be concerned if the police sought to criminalize conversations between off-record sources and reporters."
Hacking Arrest Widens the Pool Cassell Bryan-Low 2011
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By now I was wondering how she was apportioning her time between her official and off-record lives.
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has gone on a veritable media blitz as the election has approached, speaking to reporters in off-record settings, doing sit-down interviews with traditional (National Journal) and alternative (Rolling Stone) publications, and appearing on radio programs with varying audiences (Al Sharpton and Michael Smerconish's shows just this week).
Obama Conducts First Sit-Down With Progressive Bloggers The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Health care advisers Nancy-Ann DeParle and Stephanie Cutter stressed on the off-record call that the rule change would allow states to implement single-payer health-care plans -- as Vermont seeks to -- and true government-run plans, like Connecticut's Sustinet.
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has gone on a veritable media blitz as the election has approached, speaking to reporters in off-record settings, doing sit-down ...
Obama Conducts First Sit-Down With Progressive Bloggers Sam Stein 2010
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During this off-record portion of the interview, he called Kanye West a “jackass.”
Social Media Obscures Line Between “on the record” and “off the record” : Law is Cool 2009
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The line between what is on the record and what is decidedly off-record has been obscured with the ability of the everyman (Joe Six-Pack American, UnRegistered Plumber, if you will) to share everything he hears or sees, so much so that even trained journalists are unknowingly letting their guard down and committing similar missteps.
Social Media Obscures Line Between “on the record” and “off the record” : Law is Cool 2009
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We also touched on Heidegger, Murikami, Sofia Coppola, and -- when off-record chit-chat about his background in politics evoked a comparison between Sarah Palin and Lana del Rey -- his theory about Occupy Interscope.
Alexandra Marvar: Gabriel (and the Hounds) Levine on His New Project, Mortality, and Lana del Rey Versus the 99% Alexandra Marvar 2012
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This is hardly the first time that remarks that either were off-record or were internal musings that should never have approached anything resembling a record were made part of the public consciousness through this social media platform.
Social Media Obscures Line Between “on the record” and “off the record” : Law is Cool 2009
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has gone on a veritable media blitz as the election has approached, speaking to reporters in off-record settings, doing sit-down interviews with traditional (National Journal) and alternative (Rolling Stone) publications, and appearing on radio programs with varying audiences (Al Sharpton and Michael Smerconish's shows just this week).
Obama Conducts First Sit-Down With Progressive Bloggers Sam Stein 2010
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