17 Facts About Kurt Loder

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Kurt Loder was born on 1945 and is an American entertainment critic, author, columnist, and television personality.

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Kurt Loder served in the 1980s as editor at Rolling Stone, during a tenure that Reason later called "legendary".

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Kurt Loder has contributed to articles in Reason, Esquire, Details, New York, and Time.

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Kurt Loder has made cameos on several films and television series.

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Kurt Loder is best known for his role at MTV News since the 1980s and for appearing in other MTV-related television specials.

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Kurt Loder has hosted the SiriusXM radio show True Stories since 2016.

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Kurt Loder left in the summer of 1976 to work with a free Long Island rock weekly called Good Times.

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Kurt Loder went on to become one of its official editors.

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Kurt Loder started a nine-year run at Rolling Stone in May 1979.

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Kurt Loder then contributed to the screenplay adaptation for the film What's Love Got to Do with It.

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Kurt Loder joined MTV in 1987 as the host of their flagship music news program, The Week in Rock.

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Kurt Loder authored a 1990 collection of his Rolling Stone work called Bat Chain Puller.

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Kurt Loder was parodied in the South Park episode "Timmy 2000".

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In 2016, Kurt Loder began hosting the music-based radio talk show True Stories on SiriusXM.

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Kurt Loder identifies himself as a libertarian and summarizes his position as "free love and free markets".

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Kurt Loder believes that his views came from his childhood experiences, saying:.

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Kurt Loder believes that new technology has fragmented American culture to the extent that no cinematic or musical success can unify it, as with past rock bands such as The Beatles.