Kurt Loder Quotes

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• Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.
• I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.
• 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…
• And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.
• 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.…
• I know what the structure of the language is.
• I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.
• I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.
• I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow…
• 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 beautiful…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.
• If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
• It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.
• Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.
• Television's not going read stories to you.
• Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.
• Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

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