Kurt Loder Quotes

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to.

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.

I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.

Television's not going read stories to you.

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

I know what the structure of the language is.