"We sort of know what we're going to talk about already, so, really, it's just finish coffee and I got time for one more doughnut."
- WROC anchorman on how to cover a presidential visit
"When actual malice is an editorial policy, even the MLRC can't save your ass." -Buck "Lucky" Owens
"What you don't understand you can make mean anything." - Misty Marie Wilmot
"I'm a secret NEWSBREAKER." - a news director during a lunch with Lucky & J.D.
"Forget Moyers, I want those NEWSBREAKERS' heads on a stick." - from a tap illegally placed on Ken Tomlinson's phone
"Pretend it isn't happening," - anonymous
"Where did they come from, where are they going and how can I join?" - Gnome Chomsky
"Call 911." - from "Breaking the Break" a newsroom memo on dealing with NEWSBREAKERS"
These guys do for media criticism what the WWF did for Greco-Roman," - Margaret Thatcher, after some prodding and a few 40-ouncers
"I will give them this: It's a better idea than the AOL-Time Warner merger," Dick Parsons from a rough draft of a speech to shareholders
"We are reviewing whether this type of activity constitutes torture," - from the very unofficial confirmation transcript of Alberto Gonzales
"I'd totally party with these guys, if you know what I mean."
-Terri Gross, host Fresh Hair
"The Sex Pistols of the CNN set."
-Gene Siskel
"Merry Pranksters for the digital age, without all the LSD. Ken Kesey would be proud."
-Howard Koch, The Atlantic Bimonthly
"Live TV is getting a whole lot livelier."
-Lenina Crowne, Anderson Cooper 365
"If you've got a soft spot for perfectly-coifed television types, you'll hate these guys."
-Ann Coulter, found in Jayson Blair's notebook
"The corporations are stealing the airwaves from the people, NEWSBREAKERS is stealing them back." -(not)Ralph Nader
That's it! I quit!
-paraphrased from Michael Powell's resignation letter.
"I'd hire 'em."
-The Donald
