S05E01 · SCENE 17/23 · 24:25
More with Less · Newsroom and prosecutor's office
Bar talk about newspaper layoffs

Reporters at a bar gossip about newspaper layoffs and the managing editor's hiring habits.

24:25→26:34
in the episode · 2m 09s · S05E01

What happens

24:25–26:34

Journalists mock the managing editor for hiring young women and discuss cuts at foreign bureaus. They joke about career prospects and their own jobs.

WhereNewsroom and prosecutor's office
DriverGus Haynes
Positionact2 · escalation
ThreadNewsroom and city politics

Key lines

from this scene
24:26

Someday, I want to find out what it feeIs Iike to work for a reaI newspaper.

25:15

Yeah? WeII, find me some news somewhere.

25:32

But you caIIed Twigg, though, right?

25:53

Where eIse wouId you rather be, huh, kids?

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Scene in the episode

24:25–26:34
A · Pookie murder interrogation
B · Stanfield surveillance and pay woes
C · Michael's corner and Bug
D · Newsroom and city politics

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