Overheard in the Newsroom

#3041

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:30:46 +0000

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

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:38 +0000

Reporter on the phone after newscast: “So mom… how close am I to being Brian Williams?”

#3039

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:45:41 +0000

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

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:45:10 +0000

Reporter watching the Super Bowl halftime show: “And for the finale, the Who will break their hips onstage.”

#3037

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:01:36 +0000

Photographer about new camera: “Its 22 megapixels and shoots HD video. If it vibrated I wouldn’t need a boyfriend.”

#3036

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:46:06 +0000

“I’m pretty sure every time Alan Greenspan goes on TV, the super below him should just say ‘Still Alive.’”

#3035

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:44:59 +0000

Sports Editor: “Is it snowing yet?”

Copy Editor #1: “Shut up, Bob.”

Managing Editor: “Shut up, Bob.”

Copy Editor #2: “Shut up, Bob.”

#3034

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:43:59 +0000

Editor to Reporter at Canadian paper: “Space crap is all the American’s can do right, and they are not even doing that!”

#3033

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:43:07 +0000

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

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:42:06 +0000

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

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:41:17 +0000

Publisher during a yearly financial overview: “We’re coming in from the behinders.”

#3030

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:00:24 +0000

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

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:39:25 +0000

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

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:00:52 +0000

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

OHnewsroom — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:00:16 +0000

Copydesk Chief: “I’ve got hyphenitis.”