The best quotes overheard in the newsroom
- #8988
Editor to reporter: “Just background the shit out of it and we’ll make something out of it.”
- #8987
Producer: “Hey buddy, you’re a pretty big star in your own world.”
Anchor: “That’s a pretty shitty world.”
- #8986
Female reporter: “If Nancy Grace can do a cartwheel, so can I.”
Photographer: “That’s a dangerous precedent.”
- #8985
Female reporter, looking at the afternoon snow forecast: “I don’t need a foot. 1 to 2 inches is plenty.”
Male reporter: “We’re still talking about snow, right?”
- #8984
Reporter 1 reading arrest report: “I can’t wait to see what happens.”
Reporter 2: “Spoiler alert: he gets arrested.”
- #8983
Co-worker 1: “I think I’ll just change my name to Page View.”
Co-worker 2: “You’d be better off with Click Me.”
- #8982
Senior producer on being told the temperature with windchill is -46 degrees: “Hell is not supposed to be this cold.”
- #8981
Editor: “She is useless. She is screen-door-in-a-spaceship useless.”
- #8980
Caller referring to ongoing standoff: “You need to get your innocent reporter out of there and let those people kill each other.”
- #8979
News editor: “If the Girl Scouts sold wine, I’d be a lot easier to bribe.”
- #8978
Editor to reporter as a fire truck, with sirens on, goes flying by the office’s windows: “They’re playing your song, man.”
- #8977
Reporter: “I find economy of words sexy. Is that weird?”
- #8976
Newspaper reporter on phone: “Well, I can’t get the TV cameras to come, but I can write a story about it.”
- #8975
Copy editor: “So did (sportswriter) sit at my desk over the weekend? It looks like he was foraging or something.”
- #8974
Reporter after repeatedly saying he can only hear half of what his interviewee is saying on the phone: “You know what always sucks about calling and interviewing activists? They’re also too poor to afford a phone that works.”
- #8973
New intern during orientation: “Hi, what’s your name again? I know we met already.”
Editor: “I’m the black guy.”
- #8972
Reporter to editor about covering a court case: “Is he the one with the drug problem or the jacking off problem?”
- #8971
Ad saleswoman: “That’s a bunch of fuckin’ shit. By the way, who is this?”
- #8970
Executive editor, on Chinese New Year coverage: “I’ve already heard more than I’m gonna read.”
- #8969
City editor: “I probably shouldn’t be reading this dog poop story while eating lunch.”
