That's a Boren directive if I ever read one. The media believes off the record police reporting -- I would too.
He has done that before with the OU Daily -- used it to get out his spin.
Are people going to believe off the record law enforcement or Boren. I say off the record as most people on campus know Boren as used the OU Daily in the past.
Seems to me they basically confirmed the report of the mosque by saying off the record law enforcement is saying ...
Anything coming out of OU right now needs parsed. You will usually pick up a few facts in all the media articles buried in with spin, spin, spin.
Yeah and even MSNBC let it slide when the Muslim Student Organization rep Houda Elyagzi said the "officials said under condition of anonymity" reporting was "speculation". The AP and MSNBC themselves use that type of report all the time. Why is it merely "speculation" in the OU case?