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- #5859
Editor 1: “How do you edit the word of God?”
Editor 2: “Though shalt not edit the word of God.”
- #5855
Editor, when ordered to cut a sex-ed story to 20 inches: “Is this what’s known as whacking off?”
- #5854
Reporter, about his measly paycheck: “I do it for the love and lolz.”
- #5853
Editor, trying to fix the printer that prints proofs: “It only goes in one way.”
- #5851
Editor 1, after walking into chair: “I’m drunk.”
Editor 2: “Listen, we’re all drunk. You don’t see us falling over.”
- #5850
Executive producer volunteering to do an on-air eating competition when no viewers came forward: “For the sake of the show, somebody’s gotta eat that burrito.”
- #5847
“I always try to stick it to the man with an inch over budget when I write a short story.”
- #5846
Assignment editor to reporter during hurricane watch: “Coast guard for you.”
Reporter: “That’s not good.”
- #5845
Audio op in an east coast market during hurricane coverage: “You know what sounds really good right now? Being inland. Like, the midwest? Sounds AWESOME right now.”
- #5843
Design chief, on the launch of a new website and software: “If it comes to us not having a website or me not having keyboard shortcuts, that website’s gone.”
- #5842
Overnight Producer to Weekend Anchor: “Lets be honest, nights and weekends are the island of misfit toys in the news world.”
- #5841
Editor, looking for someone with good penmanship: “Who here can write good?”
Reporter: “None of us otherwise we wouldn’t be working here.”
- #5840
Copy chief: “You know that there are no points for making the headline more interesting than the story, right?”
- #5839
Reporter: “A major hurricane, most of the troops leaving the middle east, and a presidential address! I think I just had a News-gasm.”
- #5837
Reporter to Night Editor on sitting next to a guy in a city council meeting who kept farting: “Then he leaned over to me and asked me what I was doing there.”
Night Editor: “You should have said ‘You know what I’m not doing? Coming to city council meetings and ripping ass, that’s what.’”
- #5836
Reporter, on phone with assignment desk: “Yeah, we can go pick up that noon press conference.”
Photographer, screaming over reporter to assignment editor: “Don’t fuck with my lunch!”
- #5834
Reporter talking about man she interviewed: “I think he’s off his rocker, but he served my purpose.”
- #5832
Reporter to editor: “Is ass allowed on the comment section if it’s spelled with dollar signs (a$$)?”
- #5831
Producer, after listening to police scanners for an extended period of time: “Time for more Lady Gaga… I can’t take this anymore.”
- #5830
City editor to caller: “Well sir, we can’t exactly call someone a crook. Okay, I will have the governor call you.”
