Standards
A piece has to know what it is.
These are house rules for Nightlife Report. They are not a code borrowed from a wire service. They are what this desk will actually do in Vol. I.
Label the composite
If a scene is a pattern rather than a single reported night, the piece says “Illustrative desk copy” before the body. The label is part of the piece, not a footnote someone can miss. Field notes and the Halloween brief in this edition carry it. The Report does not, because it states method and does not stage a scene.
No invented quotations
This edition contains none. A later quotation needs a person, words they said, and an attribution they will stand. Anonymous color, reconstructed dialogue, and “a promoter told me” without a name the desk can defend are out.
Video keeps its public name
A picture is embedded only with the URL and title already published. The desk does not retitle a file to make the paper look cleaner, and it does not invent an ID. Devotion is the test: the name is known here, the URL is not, so there is no player.
News pages are not a rate card
Field, Film, the Report, Halloween, and the front page do not invite a booking. Studio is the commercial desk. It says so in the first lines. A footer link to a related property is identification, not an offer.
The conflict stays visible
Anthony Perlas edits the paper and books studio work as LILLITH. The masthead states that. The paper will not present a paid shoot as an independent review. Readers who want the long version should read the masthead.
Adults 21+
The audience is adults. The desk does not cover underage rooms, does not dress a younger night up as a scene, and does not take tips that would require it to.
Corrections are public
A factual error gets a dated note on the corrections page, not a quiet rewrite. This issue has none filed. Send the URL, the passage, and what is wrong to [email protected].