Look at that. The airport office answered: "It was a precautionary holding pattern due to sensor malfunction; there was zero fire, and it touched down safely." Without cool confirmation, there is no chance we protect our credibility as a news organization. Carve that into your soul! (N2 lesson 67)
Administrative agencies abusing broad discretionary authority to block information to cover up inconvenient scandals has no chance of being accepted in a democratic society. The legitimacy of journalism monitoring police operations has been upheld. (N2 lesson 76)
Oh, thank goodness! At one point we couldn't reach the rights holder, and I'd nearly given up: there was no way approval would come before airtime! (N2 lesson 116)
Hauling sodden tatami mats from flooded homes and shoveling foul-smelling sludge from beneath floorboards is grueling manual labor. Rebuilding all residences with municipal civil servants alone is impossible. (N2 lesson 138)
Right. We're tuning airtime down to the second across the desks. An excuse like "it didn't go as planned, so we had an on-air mistake" has no chance of passing in the professional world. We alter the lineup flexibly to match the gravity of the news. (N2 lesson 12)
