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Television's not going read stories to you.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Stories
Television
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I know what the structure of the language is.
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Knows
Language
Structure
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Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.
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Important
Literature
Stories
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Important
Music Is
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I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
College
Hated
Two
Years
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Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.
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Dependent
News
Television
Images
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And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Cover
Critically
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I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Covering
Criminals
Papers
Trials
Courts
Criminal
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Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.
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Important
Stories
Television
Treatment
Lend
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If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Answers
Audience
Interest
Questions
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Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Features
Style
Wells
Writing
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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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Issues
News
Style
Issue
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And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Can Do
Important
Literature
Edit
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Rewrite
The Most Important
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Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Literature
Pieces
Stuff
Time Doing More
Feature
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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.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
News
People
Thinking
Younger
Dismissed
Younger People
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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 interested in the subject.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Interviews
Literature
Want
Interview
Subject
Whomever
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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.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Jobs
Beautiful
Hands
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And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Paragraph
Work Good Will
Gonna
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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.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Department
High Standards
Journalism
Magazines
Research
Rocks
Rolling
High Standard
Standard
Rolling Stone
Stone
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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 before, but it makes perfectly good sense.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Good Sense
Ideas
Perfectly Good
Thinking
Yeah
Good People Never
Younger
Effect
Perfectly
Younger People
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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 interest to your audience.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Culture
Interest
Interesting
News
Would Be
World Culture Your
Area
Culture World Your
Happening
Relates
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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 journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Europe
Journalism
Scandal
Seven
Years
Yellow
Newspaper
Sheet
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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.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Rewriting
Beautiful Thing
Editor
Large
Large Part
Pare
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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, and you just have to fend that off all the time.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Buddy
Reason
Want
Time Yourself Your
Flatter
Generally
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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. And that's a really important thing to adhere to.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Democrat
Adhere
Assume
Cause
People Important Everyone
Important Thing
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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.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Issues
Older People
Senior
Target
Target Audience
Youth
Youth Culture
Culture People Young
Citizen
Senior Citizens
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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 / Film Critic
Important
News
Rely
Thinking
Written Word
Adjunct
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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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. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Issues
Passion
Raises
Thinking
Matters
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You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Important
Journalism
Law
Way
Bury
Immutable
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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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.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Covering
Literature
No Point
People
Tempting
Good People Doing
Anyway
Good Thing
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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 issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.
Kurt Loder / Film Critic
Aids
Arise
Country
Drug Use
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Pop Culture
Popular Culture
Raises
Thinking
Naturally
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Popular
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