"People don't mind paying a dollar a block today," he said, his customary, non-blackout rate.
Even in a non-traditional workspace like Blackout HQ, the big boys still tuck themselves away behind glass and cheap blinds.
By the end of the evening, six reporters, working as a team from the newsroom of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, had managed to force out a non-explanation explanation of the blackout from Entergy and the Superdome's operators.
I liked his sense of humor on the matter at his Friday press conference when asked about the fans' reception to him, but Goodell can't be thrilled — ratings or not — that the two biggest story lines coming out of XLVII were the blackout and a non-call on pass interference.
Its halftime-show appearance, with Justin Timberlake, is the non-football Super Bowl mishap that other non-football Super Bowl mishaps — M.I.A.'s middle finger, the electrical blackout, Christina Aguilera's questionable patriotism — want to be when they grow up.
What accounts for the media blackout on thinking about causes of this non-stop cycle of extreme weather across the planet that may never actually abate?
The gimmick is a series of blackouts, so that each section opens and closes with a non sequitur: how come she or he, having ended there, is now starting here?
The lawyers' report also documents in detail police arresting, threatening and harassing credentialed and non-credentialed journalists, confiscating city-issued press passes and enforcing a media "blackout" during the Nov. 15 clearing of Zuccotti Park.
Nalaga'at, which means "do touch", is a non-profit organisation comprising the onsite theatre, Café Kapish, which employs deaf waiters, and BlackOut, a pitch-black restaurant with a staff of blind waiters.
