If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience. 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 covering literature people 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 news important thinking 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 buddy reason want 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-audience issues senior Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in. Kurt Loder wells style writing I don't find music being less important than, like, politics. Kurt Loder music-is important 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 issues news style Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment. Kurt Loder important stories television Television's not going read stories to you. Kurt Loder stories television Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff. Kurt Loder pieces literature stuff Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story. Kurt Loder important literature stories 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-be culture interesting 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-good ideas thinking I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s. Kurt Loder college two years 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-use country thinking And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. Kurt Loder important literature can-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 issues passion thinking I know what the structure of the language is. Kurt Loder structure language knows I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. Kurt Loder covering criminals trials I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience. Kurt Loder news people thinking
