Dive into the archives.
- #8912
Copy editor following a visit from a beleaguered congressional candidate: “I’m still shaking from being in the presence of someone who was actually on ‘The Soup!’”
- #8907
Features Editor to Sports Reporter: “Any time you want a complete lack of compassion just come on over.”
- #8899
Anchor: “Do you have chocolate in the candy jar?” Producer: “No. [Indicating toy] But I have jellybeans in the reindeer’s butt.”
- #8898
Reporter to Editor: “You stole that story idea from a blog? Can’t you find your own fucking story ideas?” Editor to Reporter: “So, does that mean you’ll do it?”
- #8896
Copy editor: “Can I put kissing lesbians in the paper?” News editor: “I’m trying to think if that would add or subtract from readership.”
- #8894
Retiring producer reminiscing about the ‘good ol’ days’ in the newsroom: “Remember when we could smoke like chimneys and drink like Kennedys?”
- #8893
Editor after listening to several feverish reporters hack, cough and wheeze: “This place is starting to sound like a freaking Tom Waits song.”
- #8888
Reporter 1: “The day started so nicely…” Reporter 2: “Yeah, that was all fake.”
- #8883
Reporter: “One of the returned veterans even HIT on me!” Editor: “If I just got back from war, I’d jump on the first thing I saw, too.”
- #8879
Reporter giving Secret Santa gift to co-worker: “I know the bag says ‘Happy Birthday’ but I wrote To Jesus’ on the bottom.”
- #8871
Reporter 1: “You guys are such dorks.” Reporter 2: “You only think that because we kicked you off Pun Island.”
- #8866
Reporter: “I’m not proud of my new-found optimism.”
- #8860
Reporter on the phone with a persistent source who has an unsubstantiated allegation against a local business: “I’ll be straight with you, I’m a 23-year-old recent college grad, I can’t afford to be sued for libel.”
- #8859
Anchor yelling at Producer 1: “I realize you get here 5 hours before I do and make 20,000 less, but this is unacceptable.” Producer 2: “Does he not realize you control the prompter.” Producer 1: “10 bucks he doesn’t realize his name is now Asshole in the scripts.”
- #8855
Editor 1: “Is that what you really want?” Editor 2: “Yes.” Editor 1: “So tell me what you want, what you really, really want…”
- #8853
Intern to her computer screen: “I’m going to start nominating myself for employee of the month.”
- #8851
Reporter after searching for a source’s info for a follow up story: “Now I finally have their phone number so I will be relentlessly terrorizing them today.”
- #8849
Publisher: “You didn’t think I was running off and joining the circus did you?” Photographer: “I thought we were already there.”
- #8839
Photo Editor: “You obviously didn’t go to a cool school.” Photographer: “I went to a Catholic school, we were too busy drinking.”
- #8835
Editor in Chief: “You’re wearing Christmas socks. I just noticed that.” Photo Editor: “Technically, I’m wearing Christmas SOCK. The other one is just red.”
