Quotes by Kurt Loder

About Kurt Loder:

Kurt Loder is an American film critic, author, columnist, and television personality. He served in the 1980s as editor at Rolling Stone, during a tenure that Reason later called "legendary". He has contributed to articles in Reason, Esquire, Details, New York, and Time. He has also made cameos on several films and television series. Prior to Rolling Stone, Loder had worked for Circus magazine and had been drafted into the United States Army. He is currently best known for his role at MTV News and for appearing in other MTV-related television specials.
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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

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

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

Kurt Loder

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

Kurt Loder

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

Kurt Loder

Television's not going read stories to you.

Kurt Loder

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

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 it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.

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

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

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

Kurt Loder

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

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

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

I know what the structure of the language is.

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 would be of interest to your audience.

Kurt Loder

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

Kurt Loder

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

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 they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to.

Kurt Loder

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

Author Bio

  • NameKurt Loder
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornMay 5, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America