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- #9321
Layout editor after reporter asks where her article will run in the paper: “Well, you’re above the old lady who got knocked over and robbed, so that’s pretty impressive.”
- #9320
Web editor 1: “The Sun just tweeted out, ‘Stabbing, drive-by shooting and homicide part of overnight violence in Baltimore’.” Web editor 2: “Yeah, but they could tweet that every morning.”
- #9317
Editor, after finding typos: “Pay no attention to the editor behind the computer.”
- #9316
Producer to reporter: “Your script looks good. One thing though, I don’t think anyone in our viewing area knows what a consortium is.”
- #9315
Producer about meteorologist: “Count how many times he says ‘neck of the woods’.”
- #9313
Copy editor: “I need to know what those expletives you censored out of your story are.” Reporter: “Ah, that would be a fucking and a fuck.”
- #9310
Editor to reporter: “Did this woman really say this? ‘We want to raise the vibrational energy of the entire city’?”
- #9307
Reporter reading back quote to source over phone: “I’m not a crazy person, but I do know that something different is happening to me.”
- #9306
Editor: “There’s a reception for the outgoing president today.” Reporter: “It’s just going to be a bunch of people jacking each other off and I don’t want to be in the splash zone.”
- #9298
“TMZ, man. How do they always know? I feel like they’re bugging everybody’s houses.”
- #9297
Online editor: “I follow @SesameStreet because you’ve gotta mix the murder and mayhem with muppets.”
- #9295
Reporter on the way to a barn fire: “If this is just a shed I’m going to be pissed. There better be a body in there.”
- #9294
Editor, looking at a photo of a multi-vehicle crash: “There’s lots of damage in the rear.” Reporter: “That usually happens in a four-way.”
- #9292
Political reporter referring to a forum: “It was a heaping helping of cluster with a bit of sideshow.”
- #9288
Managing Editor: “I think I’d like it if I understood it, but I don’t have time to understand it.”
- #9287
Assistant editor, about complaint over running the wrong day’s horoscope: “I’m not sure this woman leaves the house much. I offered to email them to her and she didn’t know what I meant.”
- #9286
Reporter to editor: “Did you take masturbation out of the headline? It was going to get so many hits!”
- #9284
Editor laying out obits page: “I’m glad these people are dead, they won’t have to see their awful photos.”
- #9283
Male reporter: “My focus is my package.” Female producer: “I’m sure it is. You’re a dude.”
- #9279
City editor on the phone: “Wait, did you say hotmail.com? That’s why it isn’t working. I thought you said hogmail.com.”
