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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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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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I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
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And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.
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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.
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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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Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.
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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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Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.
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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.
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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.
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If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
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