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(May 14)
"Fuck it. Fucking thing sucks. Fuck it."
Bill O'Reilly outburst during tease taping
(May 13)
"What the fuck are you doing?"
WNBC anchor Sue Simmons
(May 12)
"No weather asses."
Weather promo for KSWT-13-CBS in Yuma, AZ
(May 9)
"His hostility and volatility became a constant."
Lawsuit describing former Weather Channel meteorologist Bob Stokes
(May 8)
"It’s going to take a lot of heavy lifting because it’s a
change in culture."
John Wallace on sweeping changes at WNBC
(May 7)
"Will you lick my swizzle stick?"
Former Weather Channel meteorologist Bob Stokes to co-anchor Hillary
Andrews
(May 6)
"I enjoyed what I did, but it's time to move on."
Former Pittsburgh news anchor Don Cannon, now looking for work in
California
(May 5)
"It's not something I'd like my wife or children at home to
see."
Producer Sam Flood on why NBC did not show Eight Belles' collapse
(May 2)
"In the end, they don’t do it for us — they do it for
themselves."
Chris Wallace on the sudden thaw between Democratic candidates and
Fox News
(May 1)
"We don't need money that badly."
Fox Sports President Ed Goren on CBS's decision to air Extreme
Fighting
(Apr.30)
"They're evil. They saw this coming. They knew it would
happen."
Barrington Broadcasting employee on system-wide cutbacks
(Apr.29)
"CBS's failing wasn't picking a woman. It was picking this
particular woman."
Time Magazine's James Poniewozik on Katie Couric
(Apr.28)
"Pamela Anderson and Mitt Romney in one room. Is that a sign of the
apocalypse?"
George Bush at the White House Correspondents' dinner
(Apr.25)
"Fuck, that tease was too long, let's do it again."
Suspended WHNS anchor Lidia St. Mark
(Apr.24)
"Cocky, combative, argumentative, staggering, thick tongued,
unsteady and extreme."
Boston police "Alcohol Influence Report” describing GM Randi
Goldklank
(Apr.23)
"Do you know who the fuck I am?"
Boston GM Randi Goldklank after her arrest for disorderly conduct
(Apr.22)
"Maybe I said it too loud."
Boston GM Randi Goldklank after her arrest for disorderly conduct
(Apr.21)
"Katie is our anchor today, tomorrow, next week, and long into the
future."
CBS CEO Les Moonves
(Apr.18)
"We think readers are extraordinarily bored with this infantile and
nasty piling on."
CBS News spokesperson on press coverage of Katie Couric
(Apr.17)
"The silverback gorilla of TV news."
Outside Magazine describing CNN's Anderson Cooper
(Apr.16)
"It was horrible. It was horrible."
WCSH photog Aaron Twombly on a fatal crash involving his live truck
(Apr.15)
"Most print reporters think TV reporters are idiots."
CNBC's Charles Gasparino
(Apr.14)
"Why would someone deserve an $8-million raise
when the performance of the company has gone down?"
AFL-CIO official on Les Moonves's 28-percent pay increase
(Apr.11)
"She’s not a definite lame duck. Nothing is decided."
CBS executive on Katie Couric
(Apr.10)
"I am working hard and having fun."
Katie Couric
(Apr.9)
"We're not interested in farming out, or outsourcing, our news
department."
Bob Iger, CEO of the Walt Disney Co., owner of ABC News
(Apr.8)
"My slippers represent the end of journalism."
Former Wonkette blogger Ana Marie Cox on her place in the Newseum
(Apr.7)
"I understand that kind of coverage because I've experienced it
myself."
Katie Couric on snarky media coverage of Hillary Clinton
(Apr.4)
"If you're going to start taking pictures of me, you're liable to
get shot."
Massey Energy Chairman Don Blankenship threatening an ABC News
producer
(Apr.3)
"TV news can only present the bare bones of a story; it takes a
newspaper, with its
capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story
truly boring."
Dave Barry
(Apr.2)
"It looks big and ugly, but it’s not something that was ordered
from on high."
CBS executive
(Apr.1)
"It's an industry-wide retrenchment."
Chicago anchor Ron Magers on massive cutbacks in local television
news
(Mar.31)
"It was irresponsible and inexcusable on my part and for this I am
truly sorry."
WOAI reporter David Cruz on his DWI arrest and subsequent resignation
(Mar.28)
"The channel that’s on now...is not the channel that I signed up
to do."
Former Al Jazeera English anchor Dave Marash
(Mar.27)
"This is one award I won through no fault of my own."
Denver anchor Leland Vittert on winning "Best TV Hair"
award
(Mar.26)
"I love the way Jim Cramer breaks down really complex financial
issues
into ones that are wrong."
Comedy Central's Jon Stewart
(Mar.25)
"Anchors have abdicated their role as educated inquisitors."
Former news anchor Catherine Crier
(Mar.24)
“This is a very good move for us.”
Tribune Broadcasting President Ed Wilson on acquiring San Diego Fox
affiliation
(Mar.21)
“I'm the sort of guy who feels I deserve a victory lap after I change
a light bulb.”
NBC's Brian Williams
(Mar.20)
“Don't want you to think I got into a fistfight with Charlie Rose.”
Anderson Cooper explaining the stitches beneath his eye
(Mar.19)
“You have to be almost over the top without being over the top.”
Announcer Frank Frederick on the art of recording news promos
(Mar.18)
“I didn't want to get stale.”
"Blizzard" Bill Spencer explaining his jump from WNWO to
WTVG
(Mar.17)
“So much TV news seems stuck in 1974. It's almost a parody of itself
sometimes.”
Tribune Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams
(Mar.14)
“It used to be that news came first. Now the most important things are
ratings and profit.”
Former KCOY news anchor Drew Sugars
(Mar.13)
“This unethical, illegal lynch mob mentality has got to stop.”
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on local TV news coverage of his
administration
(Mar.12)
“I'm not going to whine about it.”
Tucker Carlson on getting cancelled by MSNBC
(Mar.11)
“I do not care about what an overpaid and over-blowdried anchor —
and I include myself
in that category — thinks about the issues, and I don’t think others
should either.”
CNN's Anderson Cooper
(Mar.10)
"WKRG accepts (Glenn) Austin's position that there was no intent to
commit plagiarism."
WKRG News Director Dan Cates
(Mar.7)
"When TV stations decide on changes, the public never knows the
real reasons
behind the change. Most times, neither do we."
Veteran meteorologist Rebecca Miller on being fired by KXAS in Dallas
(Mar.6)
"It took us six years to get rid of her. How come it only took them
(CBS) five months?"
ABC's Chuck Gibson on CBS "Early Show" EP Shelley Ross
(Mar.5)
"It's official. The networks no longer cover news."
New York Times critic Alessandra Stanley
(Mar.4)
"Was this an attempt to suppress information on the public
airwaves,
or was it really just a technical problem?"
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps on "60 Minutes" blackout
(Mar.3)
"I find the logic of news organizations to be weak and
self-serving."
Poynter's Bob Steele on the Prince Harry news blackout
(Feb.29)
"I can't stand working here anymore."
Veteran CBS "Early Show" producer
(Feb.28)
"By the third skip, I could feel those were actually hot
coals."
ABC firewalker Diane Sawyer
(Feb.27)
NBC "engaged in conduct so outrageous and extreme
that no civilized society should tolerate it."
New York U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin
(Feb.26)
"I'm so glad this is over."
Alycia Lane
(Feb.25)
"She just couldn't live with where life had left her."
Attorney for former reporter-anchor Suzanne Wangler
(Feb.22)
"No red flags were raised."
Lansing GM explaining hire of anchor with criminal history
(Feb.21)
"When I signed up for this business, I knew that this was part of
it."
WBZ anchor Sara Underwood when told her contract wasn't being
renewed
(Feb.20)
"This mistake was inexcusable."
MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines on Osama/Obama graphics mistake
(Feb.19)
"As a manager, I've been told to hire blacks who aren't 'too
black.'”
Hispanic news executive
(Feb.18)
"The (GM) treated African Americans differently than he treated
white employees.”
EEOC complaint against Raycom's WTVM
(Feb.15)
"We would do nothing to offend the audience.”
Meredith Vieira apologizing for Jane Fonda obscenity
(Feb.14)
"It's five seconds of the worst pain that I have ever felt."
KETK reporter Brady Douglas after allowing himself to get tasered
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“The excruciating pain...made me forget all about the taser.”
KETK reporter Brady Douglas after allowing himself to get pepper
sprayed
(Feb.13)
"It sets back women."
NBC's Andrea Kremer on ESPN's decision to scale back NFL sideline
reporters
(Feb.12)
"The whippings will stop when morale improves around here."
Fox News bulletin board posting
(Feb.11)
"Negative people make positive people sick."
Roger Ailes
(Feb.8)
"Did I forget my hair again?"
ABC's Robin Roberts, appearing bald at a GMA fashion show
(Feb.7)
"The decision was right. People who had no interest in watching the
parade watched us."
WPIX VP-GM Betty Ellen Berlamino
(Feb.6)
"I don't think there's anything wrong with one station being an
alternative viewing."
WPIX VP-GM Betty Ellen Berlamino
(Feb.5)
"We don't cover the news anymore. We skim the news."
CBS correspondent Morley Safer
(Feb.4)
"It's nice to be on YouTube for a change when I know the cameras
are rolling."
Katie Couric on YouTube
(Feb.1)
"I hate the word 'cheated death,' but this was God's doing."
WCBS weekend anchor Steve Bartelstein
(Jan.31)
"We're getting too much wind in here, and the lights are
moving."
WFIE meteorologist Jeff Lyons as tornado passes station
(Jan.30)
"We all kind of knew the company was not doing so well, but I
personally
never saw something like this coming."
Former WTEN staffer on cutbacks at Young Broadcasting
(Jan.29)
"I watched (a videotape)…and I was not on my ‘A’ game."
WFLA anchor Gayle Guyardo of her Gasparilla parade performance
(Jan.28)
"Snowflakes are actually coming down."
Sacramento reporter Adrienne Bankert
(Jan.25)
"I feel I need to clear the air."
Tampa anchor Tom Curran revealing Parkinson's diagnosis
(Jan.24)
"Like seeing your mother-in-law fall into a wishing well."
Former KREX employee upon learning that the station had burned to the
ground
(Jan.23)
"It has been proven that more Americans watch Television than any
other appliance."
Steve Martin
(Jan.22)
"In my eyes, it's all said and done."
Tiger Woods absolving Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman
(Jan.21)
"We're just heartbroken to see this happen."
KREX GM Ron Tillery after fire destroyed his station
(Jan.18)
"What moron would give up a well-paid job in these times?"
WPTV meteorologist Dean Tendrich on why he's quitting TV
(Jan.17)
"In some odd way, it feels like I'm planning a funeral."
KTVU anchor Dennis Richmond announcing his retirement plans
(Jan.16)
"I'm always, like, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh
shit....."
Katie Couric explaining how she deals with deadlines
(Jan.15)
"The station told me to come to work this weekend. I didn't.
They took that as insubordination, and they fired me."
Former WJTV sports guy Rick Whitlow
(Jan.14)
"I wouldn't say we had a layoff. We've moved resources
around."
WLNE GM Stephen Doerr, after laying off four veteran staffers
(Jan.11)
"If I could have ended it all right at that moment I probably would
have."
CNN's Glenn Beck on the effects of post-surgery drugs
(Jan.10)
"We all have too many hours to fill and too little imagination to
fill them creatively."
Tom Brokaw
(Jan.9)
"Let's face it. (Lane) had become a punch line."
Syracuse University quote machine Robert Thompson
(Jan.8)
"I cannot say never."
CNN's Lou Dobbs on whether he might run for president
(Jan.7)
"No one on this earth is going to block a shot on 'The O'Reilly
Factor.'"
Bill O'Reilly after getting his shot blocked
(Jan.4)
"We're just coming out of the gate."
Fox Business Network anchor Neil Cavuto on averaging 6,000 viewers
(Jan.3)
"Damn. The rest of the country knew before people in our own
newsroom."
WESH employee upon learning of new GM hire in Orlando
(Jan.2)
"News producers rarely venture out of a safety zone of
crime, celebrity, and character-driven tragedy yarns."
Former NBC News correspondent John Hockenberry
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