Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder
Kurt Loderis 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 best known for his role at...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth5 May 1945
CityOcean City, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.
I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
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.
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.
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.
Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.
Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.
Television's not going read stories to you.
Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.
It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.
If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.
And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.
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.