Television's not going read stories to you. Kurt Loder More Quotes by Kurt Loder More Quotes From Kurt Loder 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. Kurt Loder coveringliteraturepeople 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. Kurt Loder newsimportantthinking 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. Kurt Loder buddyreasonwant 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. Kurt Loder target-audienceissuessenior Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in. Kurt Loder wellsstylewriting I don't find music being less important than, like, politics. Kurt Loder music-isimportant If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience. Kurt Loder audienceinterestanswers It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news. Kurt Loder issuesnewsstyle Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment. Kurt Loder importantstoriestelevision Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff. Kurt Loder piecesliteraturestuff Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story. Kurt Loder importantliteraturestories 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. Kurt Loder would-becultureinteresting 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. Kurt Loder perfectly-goodideasthinking I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s. Kurt Loder collegetwoyears 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. Kurt Loder drug-usecountrythinking And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. Kurt Loder importantliteraturecan-do But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up. Kurt Loder issuespassionthinking I know what the structure of the language is. Kurt Loder structurelanguageknows I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. Kurt Loder coveringcriminalstrials I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience. Kurt Loder newspeoplethinking
