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title: "2 Covering Quotes By Kurt Loder"
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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/it-s-not-a-good-thing-to-be-friends-with-people-you-re-covering-there/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/kurt-loder-19993_covering_it-s-not-a-good-thing-to-be-friends-with_368772.png)

> [I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/i-spent-time-in-like-criminal-courts-and-covering-murder-trials-for/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

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## More by Kurt Loder

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/rewriting-is-a-large-part-of-the-whole-job-and-get-rid-of-stuff-that/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/whomever-you-re-going-to-interview-you-have-to-be-interested-in-what/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

> [Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/well-in-features-and-in-writing-especially-it-s-often-the-style-of/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/it-s-not-a-good-thing-to-be-friends-with-people-you-re-covering-there/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

> [Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/unless-you-re-doing-a-feature-piece-which-is-going-to-be-longer-and/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/and-that-s-very-important-too-cause-a-lot-of-people-just-assume/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

> [I know what the structure of the language is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/i-know-what-the-structure-of-the-language-is/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/so-you-shouldn-t-really-flatter-yourself-that-they-want-to-be-your/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/so-yeah-i-think-it-had-a-major-effect-i-think-in-franchising-younger/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

> [I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/i-think-television-often-has-dismissed-younger-people-they-figure/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

> [And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/and-so-popular-culture-raises-issues-that-are-very-important-actually/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

> [And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/and-the-most-important-thing-you-can-do-is-learn-to-edit-yourself-and/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

> [I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/i-worked-for-a-newspaper-in-europe-for-i-lived-in-europe-for-about/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

> [I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/i-spent-time-in-like-criminal-courts-and-covering-murder-trials-for/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/if-your-audience-is-young-it-d-be-youth-culture-if-your-audience-is/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

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