Kurt Loder
| Kurt Loder | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 5, 1945 Ocean City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Film critic, author, columnist, television personality |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Known for | Correspondent on MTV News |
Kurt Loder (born May 5, 1945) 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 best known for his role at MTV News since the 1980s and for appearing in other MTV-related television specials.
Loder was born in Ocean City, New Jersey. He graduated in 1963 from Ocean City High School in Ocean City. He spent two years in college "and just hated it." He was drafted into the United States Army and joined its journalism school.
Loder stated that he "just fell into" his field, elaborating that his "entire journalism background is four weeks... That's it. Nothing else. You can learn journalism in four weeks. It's not an overcomplicated thing. It's very, very simple."
Loder lived in Europe for the next several years, doing what he later called "scandal sheet" "yellow journalism." He returned home to New Jersey at the end of 1972 and worked with a local newspaper and then an Ocean City-based magazine run by the sister of the city's famous writer Gay Talese. He left in the summer of 1976 to work with a free Long Island rock weekly called Good Times. He received about $200 a week. After meeting a fellow "music geek," David Fricke,
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