Parol is an old word for the spoken word. It reaches English through the French
parole, and survives mostly in law, where parol evidence means evidence given
by mouth rather than set down on paper. A thing that counts because someone said it.
That is a reasonable place for a media house to start. Most of what we work with
begins as speech. A pitch in a room. A story told twice before anyone writes it down.
A name agreed on a call. The industry around it runs on paper, and the paper tends to
arrive after the value has already moved somewhere else.
We are interested in the distance between those two things. Who said it first, who
holds it after, and whether the record agrees.
House is the other half. A house is somewhere work and people belong.
Ìbàdàn is where this one is.