Overheard in the Newsroom

#9018

OHnewsroom — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:21:11 +0000

Entertainment writer, after hearing a celebrity’s tale of woe: “I’d like to be treated for exhaustion.”

#9017

OHnewsroom — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:17:39 +0000

Reporter: “This crazy lady who says she’s missing is in the lobby for an interview.”

Executive Producer: “Is she crazy?”

Producer: “Is she naked?”

#9016

OHnewsroom — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:15:49 +0000

Digital news editor: “I have another mindless job for you, if you’re up for it.”

#9015

OHnewsroom — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:13:33 +0000

Reporter 1: “Wow, this computer is being slow.”

Reporter 2: “On the list of things that don’t require a ‘wow’: Our computers being slow.”

#9014

OHnewsroom — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:45:59 +0000

Photographer to newspaper reporter: “Your story sounded good on the radio this morning.”

#9013

OHnewsroom — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:08:28 +0000

Reporter: “I hate talking to that guy, he has diarrhea of the mouth.”

Editor: “And it’s your job as a reporter to pick the nuts out of that crap and make something that everyone will eat up.”

#9012

OHnewsroom — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:06:42 +0000

Reporter who went to a concert the night before: “I was looking around and it was like, hipster, hipster, hipster, guy who looks like our managing editor — holy shit that IS our managing editor.”

#9011

OHnewsroom — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:05:27 +0000

Reporter as random person walks by: “So he stuck $85,000 of heroin pellets up his butt?”

Random person glares.

Reporter: “Sorry.”

#9010

OHnewsroom — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:01:53 +0000

Reporter 1: “Press pass around the neck, or in the wallet?”

Reporter 2: “Around the neck, that way, when you cover protests, the crazies come to you.”

#9009

OHnewsroom — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:50:17 +0000

Page designer: “I got the meatballs as far away from the hemorrhoids as possible.”