OTR

Because my media career essentially started as an NBC Page, I have a lot of friends who are fellow former pages who now work at networks and other areas of the media I cover. So in social settings, I hear a lot of “this is off the record,” said jokingly but also, meant quite seriously.

Today an Atlantic column tackles the tricky issue of “off the record.”

It’s the end of the year, the time for handy lists and timelines recapping the touchstones of the past 12 months, freezing them in our ever-shortening collective memory.

Of course, some people just have to be different. Mediaite contributor and White House reporter Tommy Christopher pulls back the curtain on covering politics in 2009, and shares photos and videos that have never been seen before. Find out who the Secret Service did manage to keep out of the White House, what Joe Biden told his young mentorees, and much more.