Dive into the archives.
- #5858
City editor, on adding another fatal shooting in the paper: “They’re killing ’em faster than we can get ’em in the paper.”
- #5857
Reporter 1: “The actress that played Rhett and Scarlet’s daughter died.”
Reporter 2: “Aww.”
Reporter 1: “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
- #5856
Reporter to photographer while looking at footage shot for a back to school story: “Why are all the children running away from you?”
- #5852
Reporter: “It’s a good thing we’re not allowed to put our opinions in stories because this lady is full of it.”
- #5838
Managing Editor on the phone with a caller discussing a submitted letter: “You do know Free Willy is a work of fiction.”
- #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.’”
- #5834
Reporter talking about man she interviewed: “I think he’s off his rocker, but he served my purpose.”
- #5833
Reporter’s response to a parent wondering how many children had to die before she’d report on a student being sent home for bringing a pocket knife to school: “Five. Five children is a good number.”
- #5832
Reporter to editor: “Is ass allowed on the comment section if it’s spelled with dollar signs (a$$)?”
- #5830
City editor to caller: “Well sir, we can’t exactly call someone a crook. Okay, I will have the governor call you.”
- #5828
Radio news anchor, when pet hotel dials wrong number, calls newsroom by mistake to confirm details of a dog’s stay: “Sorry ma’am, this is a newsroom. We don’t have any dogs here. We have a number of bitches, but no dogs.”
- #5826
Producer after graphics op aired wrong mug shot: “Someone just got defamed.”
- #5825
Five-year-old boy to reporter interviewing people at snow cone stand: “You’re gonna need a bigger notebook if you’re gonna write a whole story.”
- #5821
Reporter, upon receiving a press release in an uncommon file format: “Fuck you and your DOCX bullshit!”
- #5813
Visuals editor: “I see it as a opportunity for a package.”
Content editor: “I see it as an opportunity for reader punishment.”
- #5811
Police: “Any news goin’ on today?”
Reporter: “Well, we’ve got a woman calling in about finding the end of the rainbow in her backyard. She got pictures.”
Police: “We’ll be dealing with her later in the week, probably.”
- #5805
Paginator on the size of obits: “We have a big dead person and a little dead person.”
Sports Editor: “I hope you mean that literally.”
- #5803
Crime reporter trying to get off the phone with a source: “I gotta go check on some blood on a trash bin or something.”
- #5797
Entertainment section editor: “I now have something in common with a bunch of skank groupies … Bret Michaels didn’t call me.”
- #5792
After some slightly inappropriate banter on-air: “I think we just creeped out the audience a little bit.”
