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- #4622
Web editor: “Did you cut the offending part out of the video?” Videographer: “The only offending part is me.”
- #4621
Reporter #1 starts having a nosebleed while working in the newsroom. Reporter #2 just passing by: “That is good, the management likes reporters who work hard.”
- #4620
Reporter after being schooled in Twitter use: “Ah, so that’s how you tweet ‘at’ someone. Is there a special word for that? Twat?”
- #4619
Editor referring to an InDesign file: “Omigod! I love it! It’s so aligned.”
- #4618
Reporters laughing about a ridiculous mugshot: Reporter: “Do you see how many pens that dude has jammed in his pocket? He means business.”
- #4617
Copy editor: “I’d rather be working at the Lowe’s next to my house.”
- #4616
Chief Photographer on a simple, local story: “Run the shit out of that one! We paid extra holiday overtime pay to get it!”
- #4615
Female reporter on arrests made for having sex on a slide: “Sounds like a drug deal to me.” Male reporter: “That’s my deal: Sex for drugs.” Female reporter: “That’s why you’re never high.”
- #4614
New intern: “That was my first crime scene. Lots of blood.” Editor: “You’re going to see lots of blood.”
- #4613
Reporter on phone to source: “Let’s review the cast of characters — a douchebag and an embezzler.”
- #4612
Reporter 1: “You can’t make people give you the quotes you want.” Reporter 2: “Sure you can — if you have enough time and a blow torch.”
- #4611
Weekly editor to daily assigning editor: “You know when you get to typing ‘editor’ really fast, is sometimes comes out like ‘idiot’.”
- #4610
Editor: “The hand basket we’re going to hell in will have frilly ribbons made of newsprint.”
- #4609
Reporter 1: “I just tweeted!” Reporter 2: “Was it everything you hoped it would be?”
- #4608
Reporter, to another who complained about Viagra spam getting to her inbox: “Doesn’t it go to your junk?”
- #4607
Breaking news editor: “Jeez, public lewdness at McDonald’s.” Multimedia editor: “Do you want to super size that?”
- #4606
Editor: “I’ve been working on some other things this afternoon so I don’t have a budget yet.” Designer: “That’s OK. We’re just on deadline.”
- #4605
Reporter, returning from interview with Miss Universe contestants: “One of them said it was going to be just like a big slumber party!”
- #4604
Cops desk reporter: “The problem with working city desk is that when these people call from the mental hospital the stories all sound really promising at first. ‘I was beaten up by a cop last night.’ But by the time you get to whips, chains and the teleporter that they used to escape they’ve wasted [...]
- #4603
Sports reporter: “I want her to put something in the nut wrap.” Editor: “Graph. Nut graph. It’s not a jock strap.”
