Overheard in the Newsroom » The public

#9316

OHnewsroom — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:20:18 +0000

Producer to reporter: “Your script looks good. One thing though, I don’t think anyone in our viewing area knows what a consortium is.”

#9310

OHnewsroom — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:15:43 +0000

Editor to reporter: “Did this woman really say this? ‘We want to raise the vibrational energy of the entire city’?”

#9307

OHnewsroom — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:33:43 +0000

Reporter reading back quote to source over phone: “I’m not a crazy person, but I do know that something different is happening to me.”

#9306

OHnewsroom — Fri, 18 May 2012 08:32:55 +0000

Editor: “There’s a reception for the outgoing president today.”

Reporter: “It’s just going to be a bunch of people jacking each other off and I don’t want to be in the splash zone.”

#9293

OHnewsroom — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:58:34 +0000

New reporter: “So what’s the deal with that park? It seems pretty nice.”

Veteran copy editor: “Nah, you don’t want to walk around there. That’s where all the winos hang out.”

#9291

OHnewsroom — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:56:03 +0000

Cop reporter: “I’m beginning to think he’s not going to call me. I’m being stood up by an alleged sexual predator.”

#9287

OHnewsroom — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:55:29 +0000

Assistant editor, about complaint over running the wrong day’s horoscope: “I’m not sure this woman leaves the house much. I offered to email them to her and she didn’t know what I meant.”

#9284

OHnewsroom — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:53:40 +0000

Editor laying out obits page: “I’m glad these people are dead, they won’t have to see their awful photos.”

#9281

OHnewsroom — Sat, 12 May 2012 00:33:53 +0000

Editor about the police scanner: “What did they say was in the road?”

Cop reporter: “A boy.”

Editor: “Oh. That’s my road. He’s a little shit.”

#9276

OHnewsroom — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:10:34 +0000

Reporter to source on phone: “No, you don’t need to give me an address. I’m a reporter, I know where everyone is at all times.”