Kurt LoderAnd the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.375Sadness
Kurt LoderSo 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… ▶355Time
Kurt LoderI was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.378Reflection
Kurt LoderI think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.334DeathHumanityThought
Kurt LoderBut 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… ▶348HumanityLoveThought
Kurt LoderTelevision's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.2810Hope
Kurt LoderRewriting 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 thing you can hand in.246Thought
Kurt LoderI know what the structure of the language is.202Life
Kurt LoderAnd you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.215Humanity
Kurt LoderAnd 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… ▶249Thought
Kurt LoderSo, 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.151HumanityThought
Kurt LoderI worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.2310Reflection
Kurt LoderWell, 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.188Death
Kurt LoderI spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.136Time
