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If you watch movies or TV shows featuring reporters, you get the impression reporters casually slip “off the record” and back “on the record” all the time while interviewing anyone from a girl scout to a candidate for president.  In fact, Hollywood is famous for depicting reporters as idiots – stooges for whoever needs to manipulate the public.  There is a little truth in all of this, but only if you look for it.  Let me explain this off-and-on-the-record business first, and then I’ll highlight similar myths you need to know.

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