Quote of the Day:
“I’d forgotten about this one: TRUMP STEAKS! The best steaks in the world! Really!”
—Daily Mail‘s David Martosko, making sure to stay on Donald Trump‘s good side while referring to this story in IJReview.
Confessional I
“I don’t think I’ve ever worked in a newsroom where the accounting department didn’t want to murder me.” Marketplace’ Lizzie O’Leary.
Confessional II
“Top fears: heights, spiders, snakes, enclosed spaces, meaning to chat a gripe about someone to a friend and sending it to the person instead” — HuffPost‘s Elise Foley.
Horrible man in my hometown shoots a dog
Read here.
Stopping a D.C. Metro train will not earn you friends
Read here.
Job switch alert: WaPo’s Hunter Schwarz moves to IJ Review
Oops! The Daily Mirror (no blood relation to The Mirror) needs a lesson in ‘drink driving’
The headline thankfully makes no mention of “drink driving.”
Gawker gloats over Hulk Hogan’s racism
The Observer
“Lindsey Graham will make three stops in New Hampshire on Saturday, for what I will dub his ‘Can You Hear Me Now?’ post-cell phone tour.” — Washington Examiner‘s Rebecca Berg.
A word about BFF’s
“Anyone else have a super real BFF? I just complained to mine and she said,’You’re the problem.’ Tough love, y’all.” — Cynthia Bell, sales operations, Industry Dive, a media startup in D.C.
On Hulk Hogan and the WWE
“Look, people say stuff privately that they won’t say publicly. No shock to me at all. The WWE made a business decision. Not a moral one.” — TV One’s Roland Martin.