Facebook COO does an “off the record” press conference??
Jason Preston • April 24th, 2008 •Silicon Alley Insider tells us that Facebook’s COO went to a Financial Times “interview” event held by the Financial Times (as SAI correctly notes, nobody in America reads it).
OK, so far so good. Here’s where it gets weird: the even was “off the record.”
What?
But the reporters who were there can’t tell you because the event was “off the record,” one of them tells us. Who played along? A lot of people: Folks from Reuters, the NY Post, Portfolio, Paidcontent and the Huffington Post were all in attendance, but chose not to tell their readers.
Does this happen all the time and I’m just not aware of it?
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One Response to “Facebook COO does an “off the record” press conference??”
By Jewel on May 2, 2008 | Reply
I’ll give you one recent high profile example of something like this. The comments that caused so much problems for Obama about People clinging to their guns and religion? They were made at a fund raiser. There is controversy over whether such events are PRIVATE and do NOT allow the press to quote.