The best quotes overheard in the newsroom
- #3041
Reporter: “It’s too dangerous to send someone out for a weather feature.”
Editor: “We could always pull file art from last year’s winter storm.”
- #3040
Reporter on the phone after newscast: “So mom… how close am I to being Brian Williams?”
- #3039
One Reporter to another, referencing a patron at a local bar: “That guy MUST be a lush — I see him there ALL the time.”
- #3038
Reporter watching the Super Bowl halftime show: “And for the finale, the Who will break their hips onstage.”
- #3037
Photographer about new camera: “Its 22 megapixels and shoots HD video. If it vibrated I wouldn’t need a boyfriend.”
- #3036
“I’m pretty sure every time Alan Greenspan goes on TV, the super below him should just say ‘Still Alive.’”
- #3035
Sports Editor: “Is it snowing yet?”
Copy Editor #1: “Shut up, Bob.”
Managing Editor: “Shut up, Bob.”
Copy Editor #2: “Shut up, Bob.”
- #3034
Editor to Reporter at Canadian paper: “Space crap is all the American’s can do right, and they are not even doing that!”
- #3033
Business Reporter to no one in particular: “Why is it that whenever I draw a blank my mind immediately fills it with ‘amid the ongoing economic downturn’? It’s like some kind of goddamn mantra. I can’t shake it.”
- #3032
Editor: “I can’t be everyone’s Photographer. Who can get a pic of empty liquor bottles on my desk in the next 30 minutes?”
Reporter: “Hey I’ll take a couple shots for the team.”
- #3031
Publisher during a yearly financial overview: “We’re coming in from the behinders.”
- #3030
New Reporter: “OOOOOO ice cream cake!”
Copy Editor: “It’s not like this is the first time there’s been cake in this newsroom.”
Sports Editor: “She’s new. Let her be happy.”
- #3029
Heard on police scanner: “We have a male subject in a car on 1-70 with no clothes on from the waist down, pleasuring himself.”
- #3028
Reporter: “I’ve spent the last two and a half hours wasting my time on this story.”
Producer: “It could be worse. I’ve spent the last two and a half years wasting my life on this station.”
- #3027
Copydesk Chief: “I’ve got hyphenitis.”
