NP - Trump's Chumps

[John Bailey]

Off the record isn't a legal term, and while it would be ethically
poor of the journalists involved to directly report the contents of
the meeting, there are ways around it. Hell, my first newspaper editor
said that the first sentence uttered after "this is off the record"
is, well, off the record, and from then on it's entirely negotiable.

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:06 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> When will they ever learn?
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/22/1602927/-Trump-makes-New-York-Times-wait-for-their-beating
>
> The network execs Trump harangued on Monday agreed to meet off-the-record, a
> condition that allowed Trump and his team to characterize the meeting
> however they liked while journalists were forced to bite their lips and
> mumble in response. It was a power-play that drew raves from white
> supremacist web sites, where the scream session was seen as an extension of
> Trump’s penning up the press for the amusement of those at his rallies.
>
> ... after details of Mr. Trump’s hectoring leaked on Monday in The New York
> Post, it seemed the meeting was being used as a political prop, especially
> after Trump-friendly news outlets trumpeted the session as a
> take-no-prisoners move by a brave president-elect.
>
> “Trump Slams Media Elite, Face to Face,” blared the Drudge Report. “Trump
> Eats Press,” wrote Breitbart News.
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