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#9321

OHnewsroom — Wed, 23 May 2012 06:35:57 +0000

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

OHnewsroom — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:33:08 +0000

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

OHnewsroom — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:24:13 +0000

Editor, after finding typos: “Pay no attention to the editor behind the computer.”

#9316

OHnewsroom — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:20:18 +0000

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

OHnewsroom — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:59:41 +0000

Producer about meteorologist: “Count how many times he says ‘neck of the woods’.”

#9313

OHnewsroom — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:56:23 +0000

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

OHnewsroom — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:15:43 +0000

Editor to reporter: “Did this woman really say this? ‘We want to raise the vibrational energy of the entire city’?”

#9307

OHnewsroom — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:33:43 +0000

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

OHnewsroom — Fri, 18 May 2012 08:32:55 +0000

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

OHnewsroom — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:16:19 +0000

“TMZ, man. How do they always know? I feel like they’re bugging everybody’s houses.”