"You wanna cover Brooklyn, then cover Brooklyn! But let me tell you something, it's a little tough to do from a bar stool in Manhattan."
"You got a cop quote?"
"A what?"
"Quote. You know, they talk, you write, we print?"
"You're not a columnist. You're a reporter who writes long."
"I hate columnists! Why do I have all these columnists? I got political columnists, guest columnists... celebrity columnists - The only thing I don't have is a dead columnist. That's the kind I could really use."
"Right. Listen..."
"We reek of opinions. What every columnist at this paper needs to do is to shut the fuck up."
The Paper (1994)
