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- #9196
Reporter after an email exchange with a source who wanted to change his quotes after the fact: “If you don’t want to be quoted, then shut your mouth!”
- #9195
Opinion editor: “It’s more than seven inches. It’s good.”
- #9194
Editor assigning a reporter to look into a potential story based on second- and third-hand reports: “I don’t understand it because I’m not aware of it.”
- #9193
Reporter, on phone with caller: “Has the bus driver bitten any children before?”
- #9191
EIC at student newspaper to Copy Editor: “Here I thought she was a good writer, but I guess you’re just a good editor.”
- #9190
Executive editor, looking at legislative election story: “Ohhh, I recognize her.” Managing editor: “Yeah, she’s got legislator hair.”
- #9189
Education reporter to editor: “What’s a good synonym for ‘clusterfuck’?”
- #9187
Proofreader: “It’s a great story. I would delete the first eight paragraphs and write a lede.”
- #9184
News editor: “So we have a story about underwear and a story about testicles today.” Managing editor: “Hashtag: college newspaper.”
- #9180
Sports editor to news reporter: “When the tornado sirens go off, your life gets better and mine goes to hell.”
- #9175
Editor to reporter on making a brief of four bodies found in the ocean into a story: “Yeah, four bodies ain’t a brief.”
- #9174
Opinion editor: “Oh, are we doing honest headlines now?”
- #9172
“Stop trying to put poetry in your CLO.”
- #9171
Photographer, discussing competing paper’s redesign: “Look closely and tell me the first thing you see missing.” Sports editor, in false despair voice: “Where are the fucking lines? There are no fucking lines anywhere. How do I know where one story ends and the other begins?”
- #9170
Photographer: “I can’t bring myself to delete this photo of George Clooney getting arrested.” Editor: “Clooney. Handcuffs. I can see your problem.”
- #9169
Reporter on the phone to an editor: “Look, if we don’t do the unwarranted sky-is-falling story, we’re not doing our due diligence.”
- #9168
Anchor 1, in regards to the high school student who asked a porn star to prom: “Which picture of the porn star should I use? The one of her with her finger in her mouth?” Anchor 2: “Maybe not one where she’s sticking her finger anywhere.”
- #9167
Reporter: “I reported it wrong but no one caught it.”
- #9166
Reporter after being told to go live from a site he just returned from: “We don’t make sense, we make news!”
- #9165
Investigative reporter: “If you’re going to throw a huge party in Tuscany and invite every rich, famous person you know for 75 kilometers, I guess I’d write about it and I’d be as vomity as you want, but I don’t understand why the New York Times has to write about this every week.” Editor: “With [...]
