Dive into the archives.
- #2885
Reporter: “If you tell me something and you’re wearing a badge I’ll believe you.”
- #2884
Reporter: “Being a government reporter makes you hate democracy.”
- #2883
Two Reporters talking amongst themselves: “We just love to sex up headlines; make them as bombastic and sleazy as we can.”
- #2882
Source: “You’re not going to quote me on this, are you?” Reporter: “That’s generally the idea of a newspaper reporter is to quote somebody, yes.”
- #2881
Editor after 70 percent of the office doesn’t show because of snow: “This is not a school. We can’t do the lesson the next day. We have a paper to put out.”
- #2880
Managing Editor: “Do you hear about the shooting at the hospital? … Yeah I guess if you are going to get shot that is the place to be.”
- #2879
“I don’t mind shoveling snow. I pretend it’s the bullshit I listen to all day and it makes me go faster.”
- #2878
Reporter: “That’s what sucks about covering that meeting is there’s an orgy of information and I just have room (in the paper) for the money shot.”
- #2877
Anchor after hearing about a protest on the agenda: “Who is it this time? Is it those, what do you call them, teabaggers?”
- #2876
Editor: “Let’s get this paper out, so we can have a drink in memory of JD Salinger.” Reporter: “You mean go to someone’s house and drink in seclusion?”
- #2875
While a Photographer was using a can of air to clean a lens: Editor: “That sounds like a reverse coke addict.”
- #2874
Editor to Reporter: “Do you want to do a story on cattle jizz? It is a Friday after all.”
- #2873
Reporter: “I’m ready to go. Give me your best Editor.” Supervisor: “Sorry, he’s with our best Reporter.”
- #2872
Reporter #1: “I feel like a vulture.” Opinion Editor: “That’s what we are. We pick away at the carrion of the day, reprocessing and regurgitating it to our readers.” Reporter #2: “Aw, we feed them like baby birds!” Assistant City Editor: “That should be the logo on our masthead. ‘We vomit the news into your [...]
- #2871
Reporter on returning from a rest home function where two other newspaper Reporters attended: “I’ll tell ya, it was a media scrum at the Alzheimer’s party.”
- #2870
“I wish I got paid in euros, so I’d at least make something.”
- #2869
Operations Manager during a live shot meltdown from Washington: “Let’s see. I think the polite term for this is a bovine intercourse festival.”
- #2868
Managing Editor to Designer: “Now you jammed the printer and we won’t be able to print any more pages just because you wanted to print a photo of squirrel nuts.”
- #2867
Features Reporter: “There are things the iPad can’t do.” Environmental Reporter: “Like what?” Schools Reporter: “Cure cramps.”
- #2866
Student Reporter pitching a story about herpes spread through beer pong: “And you know, last semester a lot of people were using water instead of beer to prevent the spread of swine flu.” Other Reporter: “Oh come on, the risk is half the game. What fun is beer pong if you can’t get STDs and [...]
