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Liz Smith | 08/01/2008 12:00 am

What Liz Smith Would Title Her Obit

Liz Smith
“This is off the record.” (This is what people say to me every time they have something really interesting to say.)

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James the Game
Whenever sources have said that to me in the past, Liz, I’ve responded with: “No it isn’t. If you don’t want it to appear in tomorrow’s paper (when I wrote) or on the radio, then don’t say it.” There were exceptions, sometimes, if it was a reliable source I’d known for a long time. But the fact is, if it’s a news story, they cannot retroactively say, “Oh, by the way, that’s off the record.” Once the horse is out of the barn, it’s fair game to be reported.
By James the Game on 08/01/2008 1:00 am
Tinka Parker
BRILLIANT! LMAO
By Tinka Parker on 08/01/2008 10:16 am