#9185
Editor In Chief: “It smells very interesting in this office.”
News Editor: “Well first, it smells like a sewer bust outside. And then we had Chinese food.”
March 2012
#9184
News editor: “So we have a story about underwear and a story about testicles today.”
Managing editor: “Hashtag: college newspaper.”
#9183
Editor to guy on the phone: “I have to be honest, it sounds rather dull.”
#9182
Reporter to editor on directions: “You know, you turn right where that lady ran over that guy.”
#9181
Reporter: “I just had someone call me to ask what an iPad is. … It really is true: We’re Google for old people. Don’t know what something is? Call the paper. Don’t know when something is? Call the paper.”
#9180
Sports editor to news reporter: “When the tornado sirens go off, your life gets better and mine goes to hell.”
#9179
Reporter 1 on a source: “Do you think she’s crazy.”
Reporter 2: “Well, I think the people who go to her for psychic readings are crazier.”
#9178
Reporter: “I’m more comfortable when you’re rude to me.”
Editor: “I’m trying to have a good working relationship with you.”
Reporter: “That will only happen if you stop trying to change.”
#9177
Director to reporter on way to set: “What’s your skin tone like today? I’m adjusting the lights.”
Reporter: “Umm… winter?”
#9176
News editor about reporter to editor-in-chief: “If my phone voice is vanilla, his is double rocky road with cigarettes mixed in.”
#9175
Editor to reporter on making a brief of four bodies found in the ocean into a story: “Yeah, four bodies ain’t a brief.”
#9174
Opinion editor: “Oh, are we doing honest headlines now?”
#9173
Assignment editor: “Who’s this guy they call The Situation? Did he name himself that?”
#9172
“Stop trying to put poetry in your CLO.”
#9171
Photographer, discussing competing paper’s redesign: “Look closely and tell me the first thing you see missing.”
Sports editor, in false despair voice: “Where are the fucking lines? There are no fucking lines anywhere. How do I know where one story ends and the other begins?”
#9170
Photographer: “I can’t bring myself to delete this photo of George Clooney getting arrested.”
Editor: “Clooney. Handcuffs. I can see your problem.”
#9169
Reporter on the phone to an editor: “Look, if we don’t do the unwarranted sky-is-falling story, we’re not doing our due diligence.”
#9168
Anchor 1, in regards to the high school student who asked a porn star to prom: “Which picture of the porn star should I use? The one of her with her finger in her mouth?”
Anchor 2: “Maybe not one where she’s sticking her finger anywhere.”
#9167
Reporter: “I reported it wrong but no one caught it.”
#9166
Reporter after being told to go live from a site he just returned from: “We don’t make sense, we make news!”
