RE: Boston Globe Online / Metro | Region / WPRI reporter's link to club stirs ethical questions

[Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>]

>Kevin wrote--
>
>If nothing had happened and Jeff had just done the report as planned, 
>would he have said he owned the bar? Judging from his work at Channel 7, I 
>think he would have, sadly we will never know

And in the midst of the finger-pointing (was the club over-crowded, was the 
insulation flammable, did the band shoot off pyrotechnics without getting 
permission), one issue remains:  the club got a waiver to NOT have 
sprinklers.  This is outrageous to me-- and it occurred long before the 
Derderian Brothers bought it.  Older clubs don't have to observe the newer 
laws and I think that's wrong.  I think all clubs should have sprinklers-- 
it may be expensive, but the fire chief said nobody would have died if 
there were in fact a working sprinkler system in that club.  One wonders 
how many of the older clubs are fire traps...  And kudos to NECN for 
raising that issue.  I believe WBZ Radio also had an "expert" on who 
discussed that very thing.