Kurt Loder (born May 5, 1945) is an American entertainment 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 hosted the SiriusXM radio show True Stories since 2016.
Early life
Loder was born in Miami, Florida, and lived in Peru before his family settled in Ocean City, New Jersey. He graduated from Ocean City High School in 1963, and attended two years of college at Oklahoma City University and Temple University,
Career
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 simple."
Loder joined MTV in 1987 as the host of their flagship music news program, The Week in Rock. Loder authored a 1990 collection of his Rolling Stone work called Bat Chain Puller. and summarizes his position as "free love and free markets". and thought it was "amazing that people don't rise up with pitchforks."
<blockquote>I grew up on the Jersey Shore on a little barrier island. The Atlantic Ocean was on one side, the bay was on the other. Everyone there hunted and fished and clammed and got crabs out of the bay. And one day my brother told me someone had come down from the Bureau of Petty Harassment or something and they measured the temperature of the water and had decided it was a little too warm and a certain type of bacteria might incubate in it and there was a chance that might harm the clams. And so from now on, no one was supposed to take clams out of the bay anymore. Which everyone ignored. And no one died. That was before the government got tenacious about this stuff. So I thought that was pretty stupid right there.
Loder was highly critical of Michael Moore's documentary Sicko, saying it was "heavily doctored." He argued, "When governments attempt to regulate the balance between a limited supply of healthcare and an unlimited demand for it they're inevitably forced to ration treatment."