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…

— 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…

— Kurt Loder

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

— 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…

— Kurt Loder

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

— 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…

— Kurt Loder

I know what the structure of the language is.

— 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…

— 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…

— Kurt Loder

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

— Kurt Loder

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First…

— Kurt Loder

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

— Kurt Loder

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort…

— Kurt Loder

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Kurt Loder

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

— Kurt Loder

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

— Kurt Loder

Television's not going read stories to you.

— Kurt Loder

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

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

— Kurt Loder

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…

— Kurt Loder

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of…

— Kurt Loder

But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of…

— Kurt Loder

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it…

— Kurt Loder