“Editor to crime reporter who is distracted by a weather story: “Chase the crash, not the rainbow.”
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September 2012
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Editor 1: “There’s pizza and salad in the other room.”
Editor 2: “So by now you meant there’s just salad.”
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“Reporter to photographer: “Is it a bad thing that I fantasize about getting fired?”
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“Reporter, talking to a colleague: “Okay, I’m going to go meet with this wannabe Deep Throat.”
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Editor 1: “Are you one of the chosen few with the keys to the coffee?”
Editor 2: “That depends upon which coffee you mean.”
Editor 1: “I mean the coffee I’m going to start up a chainsaw and start killin’ people without.”
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“Reporter, trying to get a press release from the DA before deadline: “I told him I’ll start bugging him at 9, harassment starts at 9:30 and full-on stalking commences at 10.”
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“Reporter to intern: “Our clerk handles anything under 7 inches. If you know what I mean.”
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Editor: “We don’t accept handwritten submissions.”
Community member: “Well, I don’t have a typewriter.”
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“Managing editor to news coordinator: So tell me the name of the intern I just hired.”
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“Editor: I think it’s poetic that on your last night as an intern we’re sending you to go pick up food.”
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“Editor: I didn’t say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame you.”
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“Editor who doesn’t want her desk moved: My dust bunnies have NAMES!”
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“Reporter: There’s no way a man walked into an adult bookstore and only grabbed cash.”
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#9769
Managing editor to news coordinator: “So tell me the name of the intern I just hired.”
#9768
Reporter: “I once got kicked out of a corn dog stand for reporting on a shooting.”
#9767
Reporter 1: “What are you laughing at?”
Reporter 2: “I’m reading Overheard in the Newsroom.”
Reporter 1: “And that’s why you’re going to be here at 7 p.m. on a Friday.”
August 2012
#9766
Dispatcher on police scanner: “Reports of a potbelly pig in the road at [location].”
Officer: “Can you provide me with a description of the pig?”
Dispatcher: “ … It’s a pig.”
#9765
Reporter: “Who do you think would win in a cage fight, Obama or Romney?”
Copy editor: “The ‘Thunderdome’ approach, I like it.”
#9764
Web editor: “Glee comes back next Thursday! You’re going to have to hear it because I’m going to have the TV on there every week.”
Copy editor: “Ugh. I’m gonna buy headphones that block out noise.”
Web editor: “I’m going to buy headphones that block out your FACE.”
#9763
Editor: “I hate when Canadian Press and the Canadian Oxford disagree. It’s like the parents are fighting.”
