Dive into the archives.
- #8596
Associate Producer: “[Photographer] just called. There is what he describes as a crackhead on scene with them. He says be prepared to pull out of the live shot if something crazy happens.” Producer: “If he can’t handle a crackhead or two at 5 in the morning, he doesn’t deserve to be an overnight photog.”
- #8594
Cops Reporter, looking over copy editor’s shoulder at photo: “What’s that?” Copy Editor: “Liquid nitrogen.” Cops Reporter: “Making meth?” Copy Editor: “Ice cream.”
- #8590
Copy chief: “You look less hungover today.” Editor: “Yeah, which is funny because I’m about the same hungover.”
- #8583
Wire editor: “I’m looking forward to occupying a bar stool.”
- #8544
“Everyday is a hangover day in a newsroom.”
- #8522
Deputy Editor to Editor on a particularly difficult day: “Can I get you a cup of tea? Or maybe some ecstasy?”
- #8517
Editor: “I’ll bring Spanish whiskey! It’s good. It’s imported.” Assistant photo editor: “I don’t drink it to taste it, you idiot.”
- #8509
Copy editing intern, on a notoriously drunken freelance columnist: “I’m getting a buzz just reading this.”
- #8500
Radio producer: “This day couldn’t get worse. I’m going to get a drunk and smoke a lot of cigarettes.” IT: “How is this different from when you have a good day?”
- #8497
Reporter filling in as editor-in-chief for the day: “Just changed a mayoral candidate’s activity from ‘United Meth’ to ‘United Methodist.’ I’ll put that down as a ‘good catch’ by me.”
- #8475
“White powder all over the conference room table, and its from the damned donuts. Times in journalism certainly have changed.”
- #8471
Reporter: “The problem is, the wrong people are taking performance enhancing drugs. I want the grocery store checkout clerk to take ‘em.”
- #8455
“I can’t believe you just corrected my AP style, not the fact I want to do drugs.”
- #8447
Managing editor: “Since we don’t have any whiskey here, I’ll have some candy.”
- #8437
Weekend reporter: “Anyone know of something I can cover live on Sunday?” Assistant News Editor: “My hang over.”
- #8433
Photographer on furlough: “This is the drunkest week of my life, why stop now?”
- #8419
Sales rep on differences in clients: “Well it’s a lot cheaper to smoke weed than it is to get new boobs.”
- #8414
Editor: “You’ve seemed more chipper lately.” Reporter: “I’ve just been drunk most of the time.”
- #8406
Arts and Entertainment editor on a failed story: “It was just a bunch of people with mustaches drinking together at a bar.”
- #8445
Reporter after meeting another reporter at a party: “I knew he was in news before he told me. He smelled of whiskey and frustration.”
