Media Training Reminder

As we tell our coaches, administrators and student-athletes, there is no such thing as off the record. Just ask former Barak Obama staffer Samantha Power. The money quote:

Power's interview Monday was published Friday in a Scottish newspaper, even though she tried to keep it from appearing in print.

"She is a monster, too—that is off the record—she is stooping to anything," The Scotsman quoted her as saying.

If that wasn't bad enough:

"You just look at her and think: ergh. But if you are poor and she is telling you some story about how Obama is going to take your job away, maybe it will be more effective. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive," she said.

Oh, and just because you said it to a media outlet that's out of town (or out of the country), there are those pesky internets. More here and here.