Kurt Loder Quotes

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

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

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

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

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.

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

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.

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

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

Television's not going read stories to you.

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I know what the structure of the language is.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

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

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.

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.

So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.