Archive for February 16th, 2009

16 Feb 2009 Overheard in the Newsroom

My new favorite website: http://overheardinthenewsroom.com/

I’ve heard these or versions of these before:

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Editor-in-Chief: “You know, I always hated it when the media sensationalized deaths, but now that I have a death story, I so want to do it!”

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Photographer: “Can we find someone who’s unemployed and follow them?”
Business reporter: “I don’t know, there’s not that many.”

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Reporter to another reporter: “The young girl’s mother is a stripper? She didn’t tell ME that when I spoke to her.”

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“We’ll still be able to do good work for at least a few more months.”

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“Now that I threw up I should be fine.”

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“The journalist in me loves you for doing stuff like this. But the boss in me wants to choke the crap out of you.”

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My newspaper-editor roommate leaving the house: “I’m going to Starbucks. I mean work.”

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Editor to reporter:
“Let’s move voodoo dolls higher… because you just can’t go wrong with voodoo dolls.”

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Editor 1: “Grammar Nazi.”
Editor 2: “I’m not a grammar Nazi. That’s the point. I’m a grammar enthusiast.”

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Reporter: It’s raining.
Designer: Where?
Reporter: Outside.

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I may have said some of them too.