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… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
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… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
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… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in. — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
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… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff. — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
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.… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
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,… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
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… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience. — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
