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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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
Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.
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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.
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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.
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If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
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And I got out, and it was during the time of the Vietnam war, and I was going to be drafted, so I joined to go to journalism school.
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