Editor & Publisher News outlets and journalism organizations have send a letter to 600 press secretaries, urging them to stop the practice of off-the-record briefings. "In today's age of Twitter and blogs, an 'off-the-record' speech will be publicized, just not by reporters," says Sunshine in Government Initiative coordinator
Rick Blum. "It just doesn't make sense anymore and the practice should stop."
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