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The calls a newsroom gets
By adamg on Sun, 03/15/2015 - 12:54pm
A staffer at one of Boston's finer TV newsrooms has started chronicling the phone calls they get.
Caller: Is it true that someone can live in your house w/o you even knowing?…and the body can turn into something else? Me: I have to go.
Ed. note: As a recovering ink-stained wretch, I can vouch that newspaper newsrooms get the same kind of calls.
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I've always enjoyed her
I've always enjoyed her tweeting these phone calls.
Are newsroom phone numbers listed in the phone book or do these people know enough to use the internet to find the phone number but not enough to use it to find the answer to their often simple questions?
In case you haven't noticed
newsrooms these days have these things called tip lines that are loudly and frequently broadcast by the stations.
And the body
Not only can unknown people live in one's house and change shape, but they can also live in one's body, without one knowing it. At that point one becomes 2. Get a 3rd unknown and party time!
The permutations of what is known and unknown would be astounding. Knowing that one can be unknowingly inhabited by another could mean that the unknown could be known while remaining unknown. Might make Donald Rumsfeld proud. But only if it was known.
If only these people knew
If only these people knew their neighbor was making 900 bucks an hour using Google or how to pay off their mortgage with one cheap trick from a video that FEMA banned.* Then they'd be so content to not have to ask ridiculous questions of the talking heads.
Right?
*seriously what's with the lame ads which seem to be to all that weirdness on every website these days?
Perks
If there is an unknown person occupying one's body, it's okay to take the carpool lane.
Elvis
Remember Doreen? I think that was her name. She called the Middlesex News almost every night to talk about her latest Elvis sighting.
Even better
She was the world's first female handicapped Elvis impersonator - and she got to the point where she would call every extension in the newsroom in sequence, getting more and more upset as people hung up on her until finally somebody had to call her local police department to ask them to go pay her a visit.