Reporter 1: “Your story is the most heartbreaking, depressing story I’ve read in a long time.”
Reporter 2: “Well, we aim to please.”
#10497
Producer, while proofing a reporter’s script with the reporter on the phone: “Because the verb ‘finger’ isn’t going to work! That’s why!” [Slams phone]
#10496
Editor in response to a 75″ article: “Her story is in. I see she kept it down to a short novel today.”
#10495
Reporter: “This job is making me care about sports, and it’s wrong.”
#10494
Reporter: “If someone were to get fired, how long would they have to clean out their desk?”
#10493
Cameraman, talking about anchor that was fired: “I still suffer from PTSD from working with that woman.”
#10492
Reporter commenting on CBS running regular programing during breaking news: “Nobody cuts into the Price is Right!”
#10491
Assistant managing editor: “Sometimes young people aren’t as young as I think they should be. [Turns to younger reporter] You don’t have us on the Reddit thing. What the hell is the value of you?”
#10490
Page designer after watching sports editor’s test of gravity: “He’s more like a Fig Newton than Isaac Newton.”
#10489
Copy editor: “Reporters always have more fun. They’re the blondes of the newsroom.”