Dive into the archives.
- #5817
Editor: “Remember back a couple of years ago when all those people were leaving ahead of layoffs? We had cake like every day. Those were good times. …You know, except for the people we liked that left.”
- #5816
Editor 1 shouts out, referring to the Style section: “What’s style?” Editor 2: “Style is taking what you have, and making it work.”
- #5815
Floor director, approaching producer about a guest segment for the early morning show: “A band?” Producer: “A steel drum band.” Floor director: “A STEEL DRUM BAND?!” Producer: “A steel drum band.” Floor director: “You owe me LOTS of coffee.”
- #5814
Student Media Adviser to Editor in Chief after a meeting: “You need to learn to be more diplomatic.” Editor in Chief: “I am diplomatic 99% of the time. Losing my shit 1% of the time ensures that 99% doesn’t turn in to 50%.”
- #5813
Visuals editor: “I see it as a opportunity for a package.” Content editor: “I see it as an opportunity for reader punishment.”
- #5812
IT support guy on the phone: “Are you from editorial?” Reporter: “Yes… Why?” IT support guy: “You all sound busy.”
- #5811
Police: “Any news goin’ on today?” Reporter: “Well, we’ve got a woman calling in about finding the end of the rainbow in her backyard. She got pictures.” Police: “We’ll be dealing with her later in the week, probably.”
- #5810
New business guy explaining to greatly shrunken reporting staff why the time is right — even overdue — for the publication to raise its price for the first time in five years: “What else hasn’t gone up in 5 years?” Veteran reporter: “Our salaries.”
- #5809
Managing editor to graphics editor: “Please classify why you think I would be a bad prostitute.”
- #5808
Producer: “Here’s a developing story from my weekend: My son tried to breast feed my other son.”
- #5807
Managing editor to reporter who keeps asking questions: “The internet is RIGHT THERE.”
- #5806
Photographer, while eating cake during budget meeting: “A life without cake is a life that is sad and empty.”
- #5805
Paginator on the size of obits: “We have a big dead person and a little dead person.” Sports Editor: “I hope you mean that literally.”
- #5804
Editor to photographer: “I’m glad your ambitions are as low as my expectations.”
- #5803
Crime reporter trying to get off the phone with a source: “I gotta go check on some blood on a trash bin or something.”
- #5802
Reporter to producer: “Can you reprint that in upper/lower case. When it is in all caps, it makes me feel like I am shouting.”
- #5801
Reporter to editor about e-mail to difficult source: “Who else can I copy on this?” Editor: “Barack Obama.”
- #5800
Picture editor commenting on a bad photo crop: “Just another ring stain etched in the porcelain of the toilet bowl publishing history of this paper.”
- #5799
Reporter to intern after a sports editor walks through the newsroom ranting into his cell phone: “He’s like a hormonal teenage girl dressed in a mansuit when he gets his feelings hurt.”
- #5798
TV producer at 10:40 p.m.: “The highlight of my night was bitching about this place.”
