Dive into the archives.
- #8970
Executive editor, on Chinese New Year coverage: “I’ve already heard more than I’m gonna read.”
- #8967
Reporter after covering court: “He was laughing with the judge… then he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He stopped laughing.”
- #8966
Editor in Chief: “Ok, Merriam-Webster says it’s a word, so I’ll go with that.” Sports Editor: “They know their shit.”
- #8963
Reporter looking to move on a story about prostitution for the next news bulletin: “What can I do with a prostitute at 10 a.m.?”
- #8962
Reporter: “I think a murder charge would look better on a criminal record than sodomy with a horse.”
- #8960
Reporter who is unfamiliar with Quark, laying out a page: “How do I get the text to run around these ads? I mean, doesn’t it just want to stay away from them?”
- #8959
Reporter: “Can I use ‘remnants’ as another word for ‘gut pile’ to avoid saying ‘gut pile’ twice in a sentence?” Editor: “But we are a Montana paper — I like ‘gut pile’ better.”
- #8956
News Editor at an engineering college newspaper: “Why can’t the newsmakers on campus be more photogenic?”
- #8954
“Well, you know I’m not plagiarizing this. It’s coming straight out of the rat hole.”
- #8953
Executive producer, after putting a caller on hold: “Did anybody take a call this morning about a monkey riding a border collie?”
- #8950
Editor to Copy Editor over photos of polar bear plunge: “I think we should run this photo – it’s up close, and you can clearly see the guy thinking ‘Oh God, my balls are frozen.’”
- #8947
Assistant editor 1, regarding whether cellphone should be one word or two: “Now all the other news services make it one and I don’t want to keep changing it.” Assistant editor 2, who likes it as two words: “Fine. I’m not in the business of creating more work for no reason other than me being [...]
- #8946
Female Producer: “How long did Ron Paul stick it in last time?” Male Producer: “All the way I think?”
- #8945
Reporter to copy editor/paginator: “You guys are always so concerned about space.”
- #8943
Reporter to editor: “It can’t just be your basic plane-slams-into-the-ground, kills everybody story. It has to be worse.”
- #8940
Web producer: “I already have 2 retweets on the dog sex story.”
- #8938
Producer: “When you got someone making meth in Walmart, then yeah, you’ve got an epidemic.”
- #8935
Reporter talking about a robber in which one person impersonated a police officer: “I saw that on ‘America’s Most Wanted’ once. Now we have it too. That makes it an official thing now, right?”
- #8927
Reporter on story assignments: “You get the cute little girl with ponies. I get the old, dying woman.”
- #8925
Photo editor to photographer at New Hampshire primary: “Well, do you have any salivating Ron Paul sign holders that’ll work?”
