“The Office” but in a dying newsroom

[garrow]

None of the newsrooms I worked had a Pam.

 

[DanOregon]

The ones I worked in ALWAYS had both the fresh from J-school reporters/copy editors who were stunning, and the fresh from divorce types. Sorry garrow.

 

[Slacker]

the features editor who doesn't exactly have his or her finger on the pulse of pop culture, who has to deal with the staffers no other department wants,

Always hilarious when the features department – usually filled with white-bread bookworms, and most of them over 40 – would do its annual centerpiece story on the currently hip slang all the youngsters are slingin' around on the streets.

And most of these words and phrases would be outdated by five or 10 years. You down with my rap, bro?

 

[Slacker]

None of the newsrooms I worked had a Pam.

We had a business clerk who was a total 6, looked a lot – A LOT – like Cindy Crawford.

She left the paper after a couple of years to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles.

I found her listed on IMDb in two obscure movies and a one-off appearance in a TV series, all from years ago, so she never made it bigly. But she got bigly points for following her dream. ... Major loss for us boys in the newsroom, though. We were all just crushed when she left.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Florida sheriffs. I need say no more.

Always hilarious when the features department – usually filled with white-bread bookworms, and most of them over 40 – would do its annual centerpiece story on the currently hip slang all the youngsters are slingin' around on the streets.

And most of these words and phrases would be outdated by five or 10 years. You down with my rap, bro?

Did you see that kid? He was skibidi toilet, when I thought he had rizz. The teacher called him
A beta and said he was going to Ohio.

 

[Slacker]

Did you see that kid? He was skibidi toilet, when I thought he had rizz.
The teacher called him A beta and said he was going to Ohio.

Thanks. I sent this over to Features, and it's going on D1 tomorrow.

 

[bumpy mcgee]

my 5 year old son named the pet hamster skibidi toilet. when he learns to read, I'll get him a subscription

 

[Batman]

I actually don't see much comedy potential in a dying newsroom. Now if they set it in the early '90s, when newspapers didn't realize the threat the Internet posed - THEN you'd have something. A mid-size Gannett daily - with a few veterans who talk about the "old days" and how great they were, the fresh out of J-school types on a "timeline" to get to the NY Times, the four-times divorced Sports editor, the features editor who doesn't exactly have his or her finger on the pulse of pop culture, who has to deal with the staffers no other department wants, the editors who are "excited" about all the new initiatives being shoved down papers throats. The photographer who wants to make "art." The copy desker having difficulty with the new computer system, wondering what was wrong with the last computers.

Sounds a lot like "The Paper."

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Funny coincidence, but I was watching The Office reruns tonight and they had the episode when a bat comes out of the ceiling and Dwight catches it by putting a garbage bag over Meredith's head.

At the papers I've worked, we've had bats, birds and mice paying visits to our newsroom. So maybe a sequel at a newspaper may work?

 

[swingline]

A rat with a tail as big around as a Big Chief pencil will make a guest appearance.

 

[DanOregon]

Sounds a lot like "The Paper."

I was going to include the copy desker who needed the special chair and vowed death on anyone who used it, moved it or adjusted it - but that movie nailed so many things.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

We had a business clerk who was a total 6, looked a lot – A LOT – like Cindy Crawford.

She left the paper after a couple of years to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles.

I found her listed on IMDb in two obscure movies and a one-off appearance in a TV series, all from years ago, so she never made it bigly. But she got bigly points for following her dream. ... Major loss for us boys in the newsroom, though. We were all just crushed when she left.

The attractive-ish women were always hired in sales at the papers I worked at.