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#10932 27 Aug 2013 | 05:19 pm
Newsroom clerk, after a reporter told the newsroom to look at an article on a man with 132-pound scrotum: “No, we’re not going to look. Just because it’s on national news doesn’t mean you have to look...
#10931 27 Aug 2013 | 04:19 pm
Reporter, just finished spitting out a mouthful of Listerine: “I suppose I should just start drinking vodka during the day if I don’t want to use Listerine.”
#10930 27 Aug 2013 | 02:18 pm
Newsroom receptionist: “This gentleman at the front says he has a box for you.” Reporter: “Is it ticking?”
#10929 27 Aug 2013 | 11:17 am
Digital managing editor: “I think we should be nice to everyone.” Print managing editor: “Don’t you remember when we were nice to everyone we never made deadline.”
#10928 27 Aug 2013 | 08:01 am
“Bad-ass is going to be on the front page of tomorrow’s paper.” “That’s so bad-ass.”
#10927 27 Aug 2013 | 06:01 am
News editor: “Lady Gaga could walk in here naked with a pizza, and I still wouldn’t be impressed.”
#10926 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
(Awkward noise playing) "Oh, sorry, it was a video Snapchat, you never know what you're gonna get." -@MicheleTheodore @OHnewsroom — Liz Young (@lizyoungosu) August 27, 2013
#10925 27 Aug 2013 | 05:57 am
Copy editor: “We can’t use ‘twerk’ in a newspaper. Our readers are all over 60. They’re going to think we misspelled something.”
#10924 26 Aug 2013 | 02:27 pm
Managing editor, frustrated with software: “You can tell you have InDesign if your COMMAND-Z buttons are worn out.”
#10923 26 Aug 2013 | 11:26 am
Desk Editor: “Hittin’ two beats with one tweet — I love it.”
