Radio star Peg Lynch (Novem– July 24, 2015), had an approach that was funnier, and perhaps more educational for newspaper-naive listeners: Her character, being interviewed by a reporter for the first time, makes an unfortunate mistake with those “off the…” phrases, leading to an unintentionally hilarious article in the paper. In his film tribute to 1890s newspapering, “Park Row”, Samuel Fuller has a senior reporter literally hand in a story written on his shirt-cuffs, neatly explaining the origin of the expression. Readers as well as reporters need to know the difference between “off the cuff” and “off the record,” which I guess depends on whose cuff we’re talking about. Program samples once linked here as available at the Internet Archive were taken offline while authorized recorded programs were being prepared for commercial re-release.
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