American - Journalist | May 5, 1945 -
So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.
Kurt Loder
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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 thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.
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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 something for them.
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It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.
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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 senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.
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If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
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I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.
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I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.
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I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.
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I know what the structure of the language is.
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I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
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I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.
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