Kurt Loder

Kurtis "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. He is best known for his role at MTV News since the 1980s and for appearing in other MTV-related television specials. He has hosted the SiriusXM radio show True Stories since 2016.\n', ' 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.\n', ' 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."\n', '