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Message: [QUOTE="Col. Bleep, post: 4582484, member: 1023"] I have no idea what Newhouse is peddling these days. But it is not true that nothing is "off the record" unless it involves protecting a source...even for those of us working primarily for old school decaying media. If I ask if we can go off the record (which has almost never happened) or if the interviewee asks AND I AGREE then something is off the record and I will not use it without first getting the source's ok or getting the info from another source. If a source merely says "off the record" and keeps talking...that's not off the record. I've got to agree to do it. I'll usually point that out. Also...many times a source may ask to go off the record when in fact all he or she really wants is that the information not be attributed to him/her. [/QUOTE]